Virtualization

I’ve been recently issued with my first Mac for work, and have been in the process of setting it up as my dev machine.  I’m familiar with using Mac’s in several roles over the years, but resisted using one day-to-day until now.  I’ve got the base level Macbook Pro (2.26mhz, upgraded to 4gb ram).

Among other apps, I need to run Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008.  Using Bootcamp crossed my mind, but I didn’t like the the idea of rebooting into Windows every time I wanted to look at something dev-related.  Read more...

Amazon just announced 3 new features for EC2:

Amazon CloudWatch – Amazon CloudWatch is a web service that provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources, starting with Amazon EC2. It provides you with visibility into resource utilization, operational performance, and overall demand patterns—including metrics such as CPU utilization, disk reads and writes, and network traffic. To use Amazon CloudWatch, simply select the Amazon EC2 instances that you’d like to monitor; within minutes, Amazon CloudWatch will begin aggregating and storing monitoring data that can be accessed using web service APIs or Command Line Tools. See Amazon CloudWatch for more details.  Read more...

I ran across the following comments on an El Reg article about virtualization: Comments about “Virtualization: Nothing New”.

He’s right, isn’t he? Having the same company offer both virtualization and grid solutions is a truly virtuous pairing. First you tell people they need a grid solution to make a huge pool of computers look like a single one, then after it’s all set up you sell them virtualization software. It’s beautiful. It’s like if, for example, Nestle and Jenny Craig got together to simultaneously offer chocolate products and dieting solutions. Oh wait, they did: Nestle to buy Jenny Craig.
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