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Monday
06Oct
PacLib performs VMware analysis but chooses Microsoft
October 6, 2008 By Ry Crozier (CRN AU)
The PacLib Group has baulked at a $50,000 quote from VMware to virtualise its environment, deciding instead to take on Microsoft’s Hyper-V.
Monday
29Sep
VMware reach exceeds grasp
September 29, 2008 By Timothy Prickett-Morgan (The Register)
VDC-OS has all the important elements of buzzword bingo - it is virtualization, and it is a cloud computing enabler, and it manages networks, servers, and storage all seamlessly and transparently, and it provides fault tolerance and disaster recovery, and...
And does anyone believe for a second that any one set of products can do this complex work in a real data center?
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VMware Monday
22Sep
How big is Microsoft threat to VMware?
September 22, 2008 By Brett Winterford (CNET News)
The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat Microsoft, which weeks earlier announced the free release of its hypervisor product, will prove to virtualization leader VMware.
The theme behind Microsoft's push into the virtualization market, as exemplified by guerrilla marketing campaigns at the VMworld event, is that it can offer much of VMware's basic capabilities at a fraction of the price.
The software giant is giving away its Hyper-V hypervisor product to any purchasers of Windows 2003 or 2008 server editions. It's an offer that hasn't gone unnoticed by end users.
Friday
19Sep
VMware’s grand ambitions
September 19, 2008 By Stephen O'Grady (RedMonk)
The cloud may have been the subtext to the majority of discussions at VMworld, but just in case we thought VMWare was taking the safe course, the virtualization giant announced its intention to produce a new operating system, the Virtual Datacenter OS (VDC-OS).
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VMware Wednesday
17Sep
VMware, Cisco team to enhance data center virtualization
September 17, 2008 By Scott Ferguson (eWeek)
At the 2008 VMworld conference, VMware and Cisco announced that the two companies have jointly developed a software switch that can be used within virtual environments to help manage, secure and network virtual machines.
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17Sep
VMware's hypervisor to go open source?
September 17, 2008 By Jon Brodkin (Network World)
VMware CEO Paul Maritz said the company has considered open sourcing its hypervisor and supporting virtualization tools made by competitors, but didn’t give any indication about if or when those changes will be implemented.
“We have thought about whether we want to open source ESX,” Maritz said Tuesday during a public Q&A session at VMworld in Las Vegas.
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Open Source VMware Wednesday
17Sep
VMware CEO Maritz addresses virtualization, the cloud and challenges from Microsoft
September 17, 2008 By Scott Ferguson (eWeek)
At the VMworld conference, VMware CEO and President Paul Maritz gives his first large-scale public address and offers a vision of VMware that moves virtualization beyond a server and data center consolidation technology and toward creating a platform that will drive a cloud computing infrastructure for both enterprises and third-party hosting companies. Maritz also addressed VMware's challenge from Microsoft when it comes to the future of virtualization.
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VMware Monday
15Sep
HP, VMWare rev up virtualization teamwork
September 15, 2008 By Richard Adhikari (Internetnews.com)
At VMworld 2008, the VMware user conference to be held in Las Vegas Sept. 15-18, Hewlett-Packard will expand its partnership with VMware by rolling out a variety of virtualization ventures to support VMware (NYSE: VMW) technologies in four areas: management software, virtualization services, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and servers and storage.
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Virtualization VMware HP Friday
12Sep
VMware's next trick
September 12, 2008 By Wendy Tanaka (Forbes.com)
What a difference a year makes.
Last summer, VMware, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based software maker was on top of the tech world having launched the biggest initial public offering since Google's in 2004. On its first day of trading, VMware's stock nearly doubled, closing at $52 per share. It soared to $125 soon after.
But by last November, VMware's shares started drifting downward amid recession jitters and growing competition from Microsoft and others.
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VMware Saturday
06Sep
VMware achieves Microsoft SVVP validation - New reason to upgrade to ESX 3.5 Update 2
September 6, 2008 by: Rich Brambley (IT Knowledge Exchange)
Now there is added incentive to upgrade your VMware hosts to ESX version 3.5 Update 2 (ESX 3.5 U2). Today VMware announced that they are the first hypervisor to be validated by Microsoft in the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP).