Red Hat, Cisco expand virtual effort

Red Hat and Cisco Systems have expanded their virtualisation partnership, reports Boston.com.

The companies are expanding their relationship by integrating Cisco's virtual network link technology with Red Hat's enterprise virtualisation technology.

Red Hat and Cisco claim the move will give customers better network performance while lowering costs associated with rolling out virtual data centres.

Data security and data management solutions company Paragon Software has released Virtualisation Manager 2010 Professional, says eWeek.

The solution allows users to connect an offline virtual disc and work with it as if it is an ordinary physical disc.

Users can migrate a Windows-based computer to a virtual environment and vice-versa with little downtime and revive old environments with a Windows operating system in a virtual machine.

Intel will bring out a 3.6-GHz Westmere-class Xeon server chip in February 2011 that could flirt with 4.0GHz without over-clocking courtesy of the chip giant's built-in Turbo Boost technology, according to CRN.

The Xeon X5687 is a 32-nanometer, quad-core processor that is part of a big update to Intel's Xeon 5600 series of dual-socket server chips planned for early next year. Its upcoming six-core processor is the Xeon 5690.

Capabilities on both chips include virtualisation technology, hyper threading and Turbo Boost, which could throttle the X5687 very close to the 4.0GHz performance when three of its four cores are turned off and certain thermal conditions are met.