Friday, December 11, 2009 - Posts : @VMblog

CloudShare Lands $10M in Series B Funding from Sequoia Capital, Gemini Capital, and Charles River Ventures

CloudShare, formerly IT Structures, today announced it has received $10M in series B financing from Sequoia Capital, Gemini Capital, and Charles River Ventures (CRV). The company plans to use the investment to fund product development and expand its go-to-market capabilities.... Read More...

Posted Friday, December 11, 2009 7:34 PM by David Marshall | 1 Comments
Filed under: Cloud, Financials

Microsoft Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1

This release of the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool completely replaces version 2.0. Version 2.1 of the tool now works with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2, and Windows Server Update Services 3.0 SP2. The tool also supports updating ... Read More...

Posted Friday, December 11, 2009 5:55 AM by David Marshall | 3 Comments
Filed under: Virtualization Applications

Microsoft Deepens Investment in Healthcare Industry With Acquisition of Sentillion

Microsoft Corp. today announced that it intends to acquire Sentillion Inc., a privately held company specializing in software for the healthcare industry. Combining Sentillion’s products with Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) will make it easier for healthcare professionals to deliv... Read More...

Posted Friday, December 11, 2009 5:53 AM by David Marshall | 2 Comments
Filed under: Acquisition

Linus Torvalds Accepts DRBD into Linux Kernel

Linus Torvalds, lead developer of the Linux kernel community, has merged DRBD, an open source data replication solution, into Linux as a fully supported component. After exactly 10 years of ongoing development work – software developer Phil Reisner wrote the first line of code on December 8, 1999 – ... Read More...

Posted Friday, December 11, 2009 5:46 AM by David Marshall | 6 Comments
Filed under: General News

Pandemic Planning: What Businesses Need to Do to Prepare for Potential Catastrophe

Every year, the flu and its complications affect thousands of individuals nationwide. Businesses and governments across the globe are not immune and many are developing plans to ensure employees can be productive outside of the office in response to this upcoming flu season, which generally takes p... Read More...

Posted Friday, December 11, 2009 5:10 AM by David Marshall | 3 Comments
Filed under: VMBlog Info, Prediction 2010

The Ominous Return of Closed Architectures

In the world of IT, "open" is practically synonymous with "good." The terms "open source," "open standards," and "open systems" all imply efficiency and cost effectiveness. But there is a trend towards closed system architectures that reverse this cycle. For two examples, look at HP and Cisco. Both ... Read More...

Posted Friday, December 11, 2009 3:30 AM by David Marshall | 3 Comments
Filed under: General News, VMBlog Info, I/O Virtualization