Virtualizing the Sphere's Edge…

Yesterday Intel announced the availability of its new 45nm enterprise-class CPU: the Xeon 5500 series (codenamed Nehalem).
The new processor features a lot of much awaited components like:

an integrated memory controller
a new point-to-point processor interconnect (QuickPath Interconnect) that replaces the Front Side Bus (FSB)
the nested page tables technology (Extended Page Tables or EPT), part of Intel [...]

Finally, after more than three months since virtualization.info broke the news, Cisco is ready to unveils its much rumored blade system codenamed California, dubbed as Unified Computing System (UCS).
The announcement was made a few minutes ago by John Chambers, Cisco CEO, and top notch executives from Intel (Paul Otellini, CEO), VMware (Paul Maritz, President and [...]

At the end of January Citrix and Intel made a surprising joint announcement, revealing a major technology partnership to develop a client hypervisor based on Xen (codename Thunder Lake).
The agreement will have an impact on the market as this new platform will be integrated into upcoming Citrix products in H2 2009 and will be distributed [...]