Network specialist Akamai has developed a managed service for optimizing the delivery of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) over WANs. The solution, a derivative of Akamai’s IP Application Accelerator, works with virtual desktop products by market leaders Citrix, VMware and Microsoft. Fifteen percent of all enterprise desktops… Read More »
Virtualization
With the annual VMworld confab coming next week, we are bound to come away thinking that virtualization is the guiding light to take us to the promised land of cloud computing. The reality is different. Virtualization and cloud computing aren’t always the answer. But we are slowly… Read More »
VirtenSys, a Manchester, England-based startup providing virtualized I/O gear, today said it has received $16 million in its third round of funding. Existing investors Scottish Equity Partners, Celtic House Venture Partners, and Gimv participated. The money will be used to expand VirtenSys products into the… Read More »
Forrester analyst James Staten recently authored a pair of reports on cloud computing that do something increasingly rare in the world of cloud analysis: give useful advice. Rather than talk about cloud computing as an all-or-nothing proposition where the only options are the status quo or… Read More »
Virtualization pioneer VMware reported first-quarter 2009 earnings that were great, but the days of super growth are over. Revenues were $470.3 million, down sharply from the fourth quarter of 2008. Though a key player in the hot cloud computing market, VMware is facing the prospect of… Read More »
VMware has dubbed the major refresh of its server virtualization product line, vSphere, the “mainframe of the 21st century.” While I’m impressed by the product announcement, with which VMware will further expand its already considerable lead over Microsoft and Citrix, I suspect the company will face… Read More »
VMware today rolled out its cloud computing operating system software, vSphere 4. The offering brings together VMware’s suite of dynamic virtualization management tools -– including vMotion, Distributed Resource Manager and Distributed Power Management — under one roof, and marks significant improvements in transaction and network performance.… Read More »
