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2010 in review

First Published on December 1, 2010

At this time of year, it’s only fit and proper to have a post detailing the year in review or offering a list of predictions for the coming year. For the last couple of years I’ve thrown my credibility to the wind by offering a series of very doubtful predictions, but this year I’ve decided to take a look at the year’s events and record those that I think deserve the greatest attention.

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ARM powers innovation in Dell enterprise laptops

First Published on October 14, 2010

“Instant-on” technology has been available from laptop vendors for a number of years now, bypassing the full Windows startup sequence and offering rapid (typically less than 10 seconds) access to a Linux environment that provides web and e-mail services etc. so that a user can quickly access key pieces of information and then shutdown their laptop again so conserving battery life.

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Desktop Virtualization, it’s not just for desktops

First Published on October 4, 2010

ARM Holdings, a company that doesn’t even plans to develop a hypervisor, is fast creating a new market for virtualization that will be fought over with just as much vigor as the current battle for control of the desktop virtualization market. ARM may not have it own hypervisor, but it doesn’t need one. What it does have instead is expertise in designing high-performance low-power processors and it is this expertise that is about to create a major new market for virtualization vendors to exploit.

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