Bingo! Just 3 hours after my last blog post, there was a live seminar from Intel with IBM, VMware & Microsoft regarding the new 5500 microprocessor! In the IBM presentation they announced the HS22 that I talked a bout and in VMware they elaborated more on the integration and benefits with the new [...]

Intel’s next-gen microprocessor, Xeon 55xx series (codename Nehalem) will soon rock our virtual world with VMware’s ESX4 expected GA sometime this year. I’ve seen an excellent and detailed presentation from intel last week talking about this new architecture and how it’s meant for taking the performance to the next level, but it was quite interesting [...]