Monday, September 27, 2010
Orange looks set to use Cisco, EMC, VMware in cloud Orange Business Services is planning an audio conference with the three-way data-centre partnership. The group was formed to combine networking, storage, computing and virtualization components in prepackaged "VBlocks" for constructing data centres
Monday, September 20, 2010
VMware could abandon anti-OS stance with Novell buy The virtualization giant needs an OS to compete against Microsoft, analyst says. The company could get one if they acquire Novell's Linux business
Friday, September 10, 2010
Vendor demonstrates insider attack on VMware ESX An engineer with BeyondTrust Software Inc. said IT workers with root access to VMware Inc.’s ESX hypervisor could manipulate the service console and steal data tied to virtual machines and then delete history and log files. VMWare says root passwords to any system will allow access but moving to ESXi will make data harder to steal
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Voltaire unveils 10 Gig Ethernet switch The Vantage 6048, scheduled to ship in October from Voltaire Ltd., is designed for data centres running cloud applications and VMware Inc.’s Vmotion. Yankee Group's Zeus Kerravala gives his take
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
VMware, Citrix lead in VDI tools, Gartner says VMWORLD 2010: Gartner analyst Chris Wolf breaks down virtual desktop management tools from VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and Quest Software. Find out why VMware and Citrix lead the way for big IT shops and where Microsoft and Quest might fit in
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
VMware pushes 'new stack,' becomes ITaaS firm VMWORLD 2010: The company is attempting to reinvent itself as an “IT as a service” company. Find out about the new products that will be a part of VMware’s new products and acquisitions from the industry’s biggest virtualization show
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
VMware disses bare-metal desktop hypervisors VMware claims it doesn't need to deliver on its promise of a bare-metal desktop hypervisor, but says that if it does choose to release a so-called Type 1 client hypervisor it would be better than Citrix's
Monday, August 30, 2010
EMC targets FISMA compliance in cloud networks The movement of virtual machines threatens regulatory compliance, but the company is trying to solve that issue. EMC will preview its new technology at this week's VMworld 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Red Hat pushes cloud vision, new Azure-like service Find out how the new platform-as-a-service offering fits into the open source company’s cloud computing strategy. Plus, Red Hat name drops Microsoft as the only other company that can offer the entire cloud stack
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Ottawa firm brings VM monitoring to end users Ahead of next week’s VMworld 2010 conference, Embotics has rolled out V-Commander 3.6, an updated version of its VM management software. The highlight includes a self-service function that will let individual business units keep tabs on the VMs that matter to them
Monday, August 23, 2010
Microsoft won't showcase Hyper-V at VMworld Find out about Microsoft's preparations ahead of next week's VMware conference in San Francisco
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
VMware option arrives for Peer 1’s cloud customers The Vancouver-based hosting firm announced its participation in the VMware Server Provider Program on Tuesday, opening the door for its customers to outsource their operations to VMware technology. Find out more
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Vmware finds 'killer app' in Salesforce.com add-ons The VMforce cloud platform in development by VMware and Salesforce.com can technically be used to build any Java application
Monday, July 19, 2010
VMware says: Windows still matters … sort of Virtualization diminishes importance of operating systems, VMware says. CEO Paul Maritz said OSes are having their jobs stolen by virtualization and open development frameworks
Monday, July 12, 2010
VMware: no 'timeline' for release of client hypervisor Announced in 2008, VMware's bare-metal desktop hypervisor is nowhere to be seen. Citrix beat VMware to the market in May with XenClient