Comments on: The Rise of Virtual Appliances http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7178/ Open Source, Open Standards Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:30:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: mkobar http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7178/#comment-1885 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:05:18 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7178/#comment-1885 Thanks for the great article. This is a growing trend, especially for migrating physical appliances to virtual appliances. I would like to point out that in the software world the two different approaches are custom built operating systems (like <a href="http://www.rpath.com/" rel="nofollow">rPath</a>) or a JeOS (Just Enough Operating Systems or "Juice", like <a href="http://jeos.unbutu.com" rel="nofollow">Unbutu JeOS</a>, <a>Orange JeOS</a> or <a href="http://suse.novell.com/jeos" rel="nofollow">Novell Suse JeOS</a>) - all of which are Linux-based. While I agree with wrstetso that the ROI on the software side is in developing & delivering your own applications and not re-building the underlying appliance, with the tsunami of virtualization that we have encountered with our current and new clients, the hardware appliance is becoming the horse & buggy of the ISV industry. Not to be too biased but VMware does have a raft of free documentation on creating virtual appliances and IBM has announced free classes and an ISV program on porting applications to software appliances. And lastly, most server consolidation ratios are much larger when software appliances are "consolidated" on to a single server. Mike Thanks for the great article. This is a growing trend, especially for migrating physical appliances to virtual appliances. I would like to point out that in the software world the two different approaches are custom built operating systems (like rPath) or a JeOS (Just Enough Operating Systems or “Juice”, like Unbutu JeOS, Orange JeOS or Novell Suse JeOS) - all of which are Linux-based.

While I agree with wrstetso that the ROI on the software side is in developing & delivering your own applications and not re-building the underlying appliance, with the tsunami of virtualization that we have encountered with our current and new clients, the hardware appliance is becoming the horse & buggy of the ISV industry.

Not to be too biased but VMware does have a raft of free documentation on creating virtual appliances and IBM has announced free classes and an ISV program on porting applications to software appliances.

And lastly, most server consolidation ratios are much larger when software appliances are “consolidated” on to a single server.

Mike

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]]> by: wrstetso http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7178/#comment-1728 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:48:23 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7178/#comment-1728 Hi Ken, Great article! For those ISVs who are new to virtual appliances, you should also know that there are physical appliance vendors out there that can take complete responsibility for bringing your application to G.A. as a virtual appliance. One of them happens to be NEI, (http://www.nei.com/solutiondesign); who has been deploying both physical and virtual appliances for years with JeOS, remote health monitoring, updates and image backup capabilities. The ROI/metrics behind this is based upon keeping your engineers developing new functionality for your application, rather than diverting their attention to managing the ongoing virtualization process. - Bill Hi Ken,

Great article! For those ISVs who are new to virtual appliances, you should also know that there are physical appliance vendors out there that can take complete responsibility for bringing your application to G.A. as a virtual appliance.

One of them happens to be NEI, (http://www.nei.com/solutiondesign); who has been deploying both physical and virtual appliances for years with JeOS, remote health monitoring, updates and image backup capabilities.

The ROI/metrics behind this is based upon keeping your engineers developing new functionality for your application, rather than diverting their attention to managing the ongoing virtualization process.

- Bill

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