Amazon hones its cloud update process
Minimizing reboots
Remember that planned Xen-related reboot Amazon Web Services warned about last week? Well, things went better than planned, according to an updated blog post Monday.…
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Add IBM cloud to the list of reboots to come
Xen cited again.
The latest Xen hypervisor vulnerabilities are forcing IBM to reboot some customers’ cloud instances between now and March 10. The vendor sent out an alert…
For cloud players, hot patching may be hotter than live migration
Hot patching is an option
Late last year, the world got a good look at the challenges and pain associated with kernel maintenance required by cloud providers. A…
Amazon and Rackspace must be wishing they had live migration right now
… not that they’d admit it. Both cloud providers had to restart a bunch of customers’ workloads over the weekend. Live migration could have nipped that angst in the bud.
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Two days after Amazon’s notice went out, Rackspace warns its customers of Xen-focused reboot
On Wednesday night, AWS tolds its customers about a planned EC2 reboot due to what came to be known as a Xen issue; a full two days later, Rackspace does the same, on a Friday night.
Rivals chip, chip, chip away at VMware hypervisor dominance
Some folks say hypervisors — now a commodity — don’t matter any more. That’s not true, and growing support for Hyper-V by third-party vendors spells trouble for VMware. Here’s why
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VMware shares get slammed
VMware shares took it on the chin Tuesday, a day after the company talked down its projected earnings for the next quarter.
VMware shakeup: Maritz is reportedly out
A tech trade publication is reporting that VMware CEO Paul Maritz is being pushed out and will be replaced by Pat Gelsinger, the current COO of EMC. EMC owns roughly 80 percent of VMware, the market leader in server virtualization.
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