HP today announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement to purchase Neoware Inc. (Nasdaq: NWRE), a provider of thin client computing and virtualization solutions, at a price of $16.25 per share, or an enterprise value (net of existing cash) of approximately $214 million on a fully dilute... Read More...

Rumor had it that VMware was going to be acquiring Opsware. With all that IPO money coming in at some point, it seemed like a logical step for them. Now, it looks as though they won't have the chance. Did HP beat them to the punch? Who saw this one coming? Bloomberg reports: Hewlett-Packa... Read More...

Storage distributor Magirus has offloaded its enterprise infrastructure division to US-based Avnet in a deal that has huge implications for both companies' Middle East aspirations. As part of an agreement expected to close before the end of October, New York-listed Avnet will gain control of Mag... Read More...

After a lot of talk and a lot of results published, VMware has finally released their VMmark 1.0 virtualization benchmark tool. VMmark is a free tool that hardware vendors, virtualization software vendors and other organizations use to measure the performance and scalability of applications runni... Read More...