VMware Inc.'s high-flying stock plunged by more than 30 percent Tuesday as investors reacted to a disappointing fourth-quarter earnings report that raised worries about the business software maker's ability to cope with tougher competition and a slowing U.S. economy.
- By The Associated Press
- 01/29/2008
VMLogix is joining forces with the Fort Lauderdale, Fla-based company to make its virtual lab automation solutions available on Citrix's newly acquired XenServer.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/29/2008
Virtualization pioneer VMware has released the public beta of its new deployment management product, VMware Stage Manager. The application is based on the company's flagship virtualization platform, VMware Infrastructure 3.
- By John K. Waters
- 01/25/2008
San Antonio, Texas-based IT hosting vendor Rackspace announced this week it's moving into virtualization with a new VMware-based platform.
Microsoft and Citrix have banded together even more tightly in the virtualization space, hoping to take on industry leader VMware.
Microsoft now says it will allow more versions of the desktop OS to be virtualized.
Disaster recovery tends to become a focus during any period of economic uncertainty -- and 2008 will deliver uncertainty in spades if market pundits are correct.
- By Jon William Toigo
- 01/18/2008
Microsoft hired a former Disney executive for its chief information officer vacancy. Tony Scott, 56, will start as CIO in February and report to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/17/2008
VMware, the world's largest maker of virtualization software, is expanding its empire with the acquisition of application virtualization vendor Thinstall.
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 targets the enterprise and broadens SoftGrid's availability.
- By Peter Varhol
- 01/01/2008
Tired of your users blaming Citrix for connection problems? EdgeSight can help you get a handle on what's really going on.
- By Greg Shields and Brian Casselman
- 01/01/2008
Like a kid who's overdosed on Christmas cookies, Microsoft looks like it's going to have a hyper 2008.
Sanbolic bolsters Microsoft's virtualization game plan with Melio clustered file system and LaScala Volume Manager.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/20/2007
The rise of virtual machines may prove to be somewhat of a nightmare for entrenched purveyors of closed operating systems, but it may become a boon for independent software vendors (ISVs) and end users -- so a recent Yankee Group report suggests.
Santa's not due for awhile yet, but for those waiting on Microsoft's next version of its highly-anticipated virtualization product, it's Christmas day.
In case there was any doubt that virtualization is the hottest trend in IT, witness the rush of vendors glomming onto this technology.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 12/06/2007
Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of the first component of its new virtualization platform, and laid out a roadmap for opening the platform's source code. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based systems company bills its xVM Ops Center virtualization management tool as a "highly scalable datacenter automation tool for complete management of heterogeneous global IT environments."
- By John K. Waters
- 12/05/2007
Microsoft hopes to have validation testing services available when its long-awaited Windows Server virtualization technology comes online next year.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/20/2007
Microsoft has unveiled the official name of the server virtualization technology that will be included with Windows Server 2008 early next year: Hyper-V.
Electric Cloud's automated software development process offering will now integrate with VMWare's Lab Manager, the company said Wednesday.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/07/2007