The virtualisation market is in a bit of turmoil at the moment, shaken up by the prospect of billions of dollars of revenue -- and the fact that a big chunk of the market leader, VMware, is about to be sold off. Effectively, it's an IPO whose hype factor is reminiscent of the bad old, good old days ... Read More...

IBM has introduced mainframe tape systems which it claims will help make data centres more energy efficient and better able to withstand disasters. The enhanced IBM Virtualisation Engine TS7740 for IBM mainframes is designed to automatically duplicate... Read More...

Emulex Corporation today announced its LightPulse(r) Virtual Host Bus Adapter (HBA) driver is the first to be accepted into the Open Source Linux kernel. Emulex's LightPulse Virtual HBA technology will be integrated into the Linux 2.6.23 kernel this quarter... Read More...

At the Worldwide Partner Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, Kevin Turner, announced that Windows Server 2008 (aka Longhorn), Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008 will all be officially launched on February 27,... Read More...

Microsoft has delivered a spirited defense of its Windows virtualization roadmap, blaming misreporting - not internal disorganization - for causing confusion. Andy Lees, corporate vice president for server and tools marketing and solutions, claimed that recent press coverage saying Microsoft's vi... Read More...