Traditionally viewed as a storage colossus, EMC packed over 4,000 worldwide customers and partners into Boston Conference Center, in the US, last month, along with 200 journalists from around the globe and hundreds of its own technical engineers to hammer home one message: EMC is now an ‘information... Read More...

There are only a few markets ideally suited to virtualisation. One of them is software development. As the scene is usually painted, the developer sits at his or her desk, compiles new software, and launches it in a virtual machine so that when it crashes, it doesn't take the whole box down. We h... Read More...

As virtualization news and information continues to spread at a fairly rapid pace, Sun Microsystems has latched onto that wave and is making news of its own. In today's IT world, organizations are building large-scale information systems in order to solve business problems, and they are constant... Read More...

Packeteer, which specializes in WAN optimization, this week signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tacit Networks, a company that specializes in wide-area file services (WAFS) and WAN optimization, for approximately $78 million. The purchase is a market expansion opportunity for Packeteer, adding ... Read More...

Perhaps the most interesting conclusion I've come too is that all virtualization (computer, anyhow) solutions we've ever come up with have followed identical financial paths. First, they attempt to solve capital expense related problems. Second, the attempt to solve operating expense related problem... Read More...