Manufacturing plant operations may be virtualization technology's final frontier. Fewer than one in five manufacturing companies currently run production applications such as SCADA, MES, Historian, Batch or OPC in virtual environments, and only seven percent say they plan to do so in the next twelve... Read More...

Pivot3, a leading provider of unified storage and compute appliances, today announced a summer special VDI startup bundle to help organizations deploy virtual desktop environments quickly and cost-effectively. Code-named “VARROOOOM with a View,” the new Pivot3 VDI startup bundle is available immedia... Read More...

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced a new open source project, Serengeti, to enable enterprises to quickly deploy, manage and scale Apache Hadoop in virtual and cloud environments. In addition, VMware is working with the Apache Hadoop community... Read More...

Service providers are reaping the rewards of a boom in desktop visualization adoption amongst smaller businesses, according to Citrix Systems. According to one provider, uptake of desktop services is seeing user revenues more than double every three months.... Read More...

StarWind Software Inc., an innovative provider of iSCSI SAN software and VM backup technology, announced today that the company offers free license keys of its best-of-breed High Availability SAN solutions to VMware vExperts, VMware Certified Instructors (VCI), Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals ... Read More...

Yesterday saw record numbers through the doors at Cloud Computing World Forum. Thousands of IT professionals packed the theaters to witness talks from former Apple CEO, John Sculley, the UK Government's CIO, Andy Nelson, and Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels, among others. Here's what to look forward to i... Read More...