Today VMware unveiled new products, new partnerships, and two acqusitions to help it become not just the operating system for the data center, but the means of assuring the flow of enterprise bits between data centers — or what many actually define as the cloud.…
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Cisco Wins First Big Server Deal With Savvis Cloud
Cisco has scored its first major customer for its unified computing system in Savvis, a hosting provider that’s building out a computing cloud for enterprise users -- the first non-Cisco shop to get behind the UCS servers in a big way.…
Read MoreDoes Your Smartphone Need a Split Personality?
VMware believes smartphones will be the next frontier in virtualization, as people want to use the same phone for work and play. But should handset makers focus on device virtualization or can such work-life balance on a handset be achieved via the cloud?…
Read MoreWhy Cloud Computing Might Not Dampen IT Spending
The question was posed earlier this week as to whether cloud computing ultimately will represent a permanent downshift in IT spending, or whether it will become another channel for growth. Conventional wisdom, as well as Goldman Sachs, suggests the former: While spending will rise in the short-term as companies and cloud providers update their data centers, their investments in virtualization and automation technologies actually will decrease the need for spending in the long-term. It’s a solid theory, but I see the latter theory being equally possible.…
Read MoreEucalyptus Enables Private Clouds on VMware
Eucalyptus said today that is offering the first commercial version of its open-source software used to create private clouds and that the…
Read MoreTwo New iPhone Commercials From Apple: Share and Travel
Apple (s aapl) recently introduced two brand new TV commercials, currently airing on U.S. cable and network television, that continue the “There’s…
Read MoreOracle Buys Virtual Iron to Beef Up its Virtualization Software
Oracle (s ORCL) today said it would buy Virtual Iron, a startup that has built a suite of virtualization software based on…
Read MoreHow Virtualization Saves Serious Computing Energy
The notion of virtualization in the computing industry — using software to better utilize computers and thus require less of them —…
Read MoreNew Boxee Alpha for Mac and Apple TV Released
Do-it-all media software Boxee just got a new update that should have Apple (s aapl) users jumping for joy. It incorporates elements…
Read MoreShields Up! Twelve Security Holes Fixed by New iPhone/iPod touch Firmware
Weldon did a phenomenal job covering the visible and functional changes in the iPhone/iPod touch 2.2 firmware release. If you are holding…
Read MoreSarah Palin Pranked, Campaign Condensed: NTV Station Today
Tomorrow’s Election Day, which means this is the last day of the campaign and a fine time for retrospection. You probably don’t…
Read MoreTMZ Drops Brightcove for Digitalsmiths
It’s hard to measure total reach for white-label video providers, but at least in terms of marketplace perception, Brightcove leads the pack.…
Read MoreEnomaly: An Open Source Cloud For the Enterprise
Enomaly is trying to sell big business on its open-source cloud management and provisioning software by renaming it and packaging it with enterprise-level support. The software, formerly known as Enomalism, will now use the Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform as its new moniker.…
Read MoreCisco Virtualizes the Network, the Data Center
At the VMWorld Show, Cisco took the first concrete steps to establishing a monopoly in the enterprise data centers with the announcement of a new software switch (Nexus 1000) that would allow networking of individual virtual machines (along with their security and management.)…
Read MoreCitrix and VMware Want to Turn Data Centers Into Clouds
As the VMworld conference kicks off in Las Vegas, expect to see virtualization try to hook its star to cloud computing much…
Read MoreDesktop Virtualization: Where Thin Clients Meet the Cloud
Today the organization behind the popular Xen open-source hypervisor announced the latest release of its virtualization software. It’s smaller, has better power…
Read MoreCitrix Can't Stay Xen as Microsoft Launches Hyper-V
After today’s launch of Microsoft’s server virtualization hypervisor, Citrix, which bought virtualization company XenSource last year, may be asking itself some hard…
Read MoreVMware Buys B-hive for Performance Scans
Virtualization superstar VMware said today it would purchase Israeli startup B-hive Networks for an undisclosed amount. The B-hive team will form the…
Read MoreVMware Acquires Thinstall to Take Virtualization to the Desktop
Unless you’re an information technology manager or a Wall Street banker still drooling over VWware’s $32 billion market cap, virtualization is not…
Read MoreNComputing Raises $28M to Take on VMware
Years ago, Stephen Dukker helped to disrupt the personal computing industry when the company he founded, eMachines, started selling PCs for $400…
Read MoreMr. Coder, VMWare Wants Ya
[qi:010] Google, which has been battling Facebook for talent recently, is facing an attack from another source. VMWare, the server and PC…
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