Hosting firm run Windows, Linux on sites at same time
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Canadian Web hosting company Wednesday said it would begin letting
customers build and host Web sites running both Microsoft Windows and
Linux applications at the same time.
Toronto-based Netfirms has built its own clustering technology,
which allows customers to manage Windows and Linux applications -- each
running on separate server grids operated by Netfirms -- transparently
through a single account, according to Thomas Savundra, president of
Netfirms.
Netfirms said it is the first Web hosting company to let customers use both Windows and Linux applications and code through
a single Web hosting account....
Big box, little box - IBM will slice it
IBM this week marched its virtualization agenda forward on two fronts, announcing new code for beastly mainframes and some labs-crafted software for thin x86 systems.
Big Blue has spent a few years banging out about the idea of running hundreds of Linux virtual machines on top of a mainframe. It's a nice way to put a modern spin on grizzled kit.
With release 5.3 of z/VM, customers now run even more virtual machines - up to a 1,000 of the bastards on a single copy of the hypervisor. We're not so sure that many customers will need virtual machines in such quantities, but IBM likes to throw out the big numbers.
More importantly, IBM has bulked up z/VM on a number of fronts.
