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Monday, August 20, 2007 - Posts
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Last time we wrote about virtualisation -- only just over a month ago -- we said: "the virtualisation market is in a bit of turmoil at the moment, shaken up by the prospect of billions of dollars of revenue." How prophetic those words have proven to be, albeit not in the manner we expected. Market g... Read More...
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Should solution providers expand into virtualization and product lifecycle management software [PLM]? Executives from VMware and Siemens UGS made pitches for reseller recruits in those rapidly growing markets in a Tech Symposium session during the opening day of the XChange '07 conference.
With ... Read More...
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Mike Neil deflects critics’ punches on the company’s virtualization timeline and strategy
Mike Neil, Microsoft's general manager of virtualization, is on the big stage with a hot technology. The lights are on him as he prepares for next year's delivery of Windows Server Virtualization, which firs... Read More...
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HEWLETT-PACKARD'S next-generation strategy includes expanding its enterprise IT management software business as well as controlling the increasing complexity and cost of managing the data centre.
As part of its focus on offering a comprehensive software line, HP says it has agreed to purchase dat... Read More...
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Microsoft just released many new valuable cookbooks covering topics for Microsoft Virtual Server R2 SP1.
If you aren't familiar with "cookbooks", they are step-by-step guides to help you easily navigate through a solution and are a great way to learn about a product.... Read More...
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Raritan today announced that its network and systems monitoring appliance has gone virtual. Designed for small and midsized organizations needing integrated IT health monitoring and asset management capabilities at an affordable price, Raritan's CommandCenter(R) NOC (CC-NOC) is now available as a vi... Read More...
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VIRTUALIZATION CHANGES THE GAME for performance monitoring and management. Read on for a primer on optimizimizing virtual environments, without compromising performance. Automation and adaptability is key….
Ah, virtualization…the promise of infinite flexibility and an example of software and har... Read More...
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ANALYSTS seem to be all at sea when it comes to predicting whether virtually sharing IT resources over common hardware will simplify or magnify system management.
As management problems relating to virtualisation start to surface, management software makers with mainframe experience such as CA an... Read More...
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Symantec has delayed the launch of its Virtual Security Appliance for Intel's vPro enterprise desktop platform.
The security vendor was originally scheduled to release the appliance next month, but will now push back the release to mid-2008, Gary Sabala, senior product manager for virtual securit... Read More...
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As the dust settles on an active week in virtualization software, some observers speculated that Microsoft Corp. could attempt to top Citrix Systems Inc.'s $500 million bid for virtualization specialist XenSource Inc.
Citrix announced Wednesday, Aug. 15, it would buy XenSource, a Bellevue, Wash.... Read More...
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Today, NetworkWorld posted an article discussing 10 virtualization companies to watch out for. They write:
These technology innovators promise products that boost performance, make management easier or otherwise enhance your virtualization experience
Everybody knows virtualization isn't jus... Read More...
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Check out my latest thoughts on InfoWorld magazine about the Application Virtualization market and why I think it is the next big thing in virtualization. It reads: When most people talk about virtualization, they mean server virtualization. But you don’t... Read More...
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Citrix Systems' £250m ($500m USD) acquisition of XenSource, last week along with VMware's massively successful IPO earlier this week, has further legitimatised the hot virtualisation space, but it may also be causing some disillusionment among the open-source community.
XenSource commercialises ... Read More...
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Wipro Infotech, the India, Middle East and Asia Pacific IT business wing of Wipro said it has agreed to resell US-based Egenera Inc's full suite of products and emerging IT sales opportunities in India. Although the financial details were not disclosed.... Read More...
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Depending on who describes it, grid computing has grown from its roots in high-performance computing into an enterprise technology that provides for shared resources. Or it's an over-hyped, meaningless term that will soon disappear in the wake of advances in virtualisation and utility computing.
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XenSource, a distant No. 2 to VMware in the virtualisation software market, went from "a pipsqueak," in the words of one analyst, to a contender, following its agreement to be acquired by Citrix Systems. About US$100 million of the US$500 million purchase price is earmarked for unvested XenSource st... Read More...
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