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With a flurry of announcements in recent weeks, Amazon (s AMZN) has extended its cloud computing lead. The beta label’s gone. It…
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With VMware and Citrix both pushing into the data center with their virtualization products, I had the chance to chat with Simon…
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As the VMworld conference kicks off in Las Vegas, expect to see virtualization try to hook its star to cloud computing much…
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Today the organization behind the popular Xen open-source hypervisor announced the latest release of its virtualization software. It’s smaller, has better power…
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Citrix CTO Simon Crosby wants his company to be the dominant player in the virtualization market. Part of his strategy involves Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor, while part of its revolves around services that “play nicely with others.”…
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After today’s launch of Microsoft’s server virtualization hypervisor, Citrix, which bought virtualization company XenSource last year, may be asking itself some hard…
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Virtualization superstar VMware said today it would purchase Israeli startup B-hive Networks for an undisclosed amount. The B-hive team will form the…
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Desktop virtualization is far from a new topic, in fact it dates back to the inception of the client-server model. But there…
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If only it were green. That’s what I found myself thinking after Sun Microsystems said it’s paid an undisclosed amount for Innotek,…
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The tail wagging the dog on outlandish valuations of Web 2.0 companies are corporate buyers and investors. But free-spending strategic buyers are showing signs of coming to their senses, so valuations may be coming down.…
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Years ago, Stephen Dukker helped to disrupt the personal computing industry when the company he founded, eMachines, started selling PCs for $400…
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