In April of this year, VMware announced that we were making our virtual machine disk format, VMDK, openly available and freely usable to anyone who wanted to do so. Since then, over 2000 vendors and developers have requested to review and use our VMDK specification. The virtual machine disk format i... Read More...

VMware's flagship product ESX Server and the infrastructure around it aren't quite good enough for the data centre, according to David Turner, vendor marketing and business development manager at IT consultancy IQ-SYS, formerly Interquad. This is one of the first and rare cases of a vendor not en... Read More...

Intel has announced that it will open up key server technologies to system builders and networking vendors. The chip maker said that QuickData, its server data input/output (I/O) technology, will be available to partners to boost data processing in products. QuickData is a data-acceleration engin... Read More...