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RSS vmware in newsSteve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News Diane Greene VMware Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two... [01 Feb 2008]
Oracle users demand better support
News Diane Greene VMware Oracle customers want better product support through improved call centres and more information about services. Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com: "Areas of issue are... [10 Dec 2007]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Diane Greene VMware Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world. Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having... [29 Nov 2007]
European software industry gets big thumbs up
News Diane Greene VMware The European software industry is booming at the moment, according to IT trade association Intellect. At an awards ceremony in Brussels, Intellect announced the top European IT companies for 2007 -... [22 Nov 2007]
Gartner: CIOs - develop business analytics or IT loses out
News Diane Greene VMware CIOs that want to protect their IT budget from being slashed need to develop business analytic capabilities, according to new research from IT analyst group Gartner. Pressure on IT budgets should be... [21 Nov 2007]
Microsoft does bundling U-turn on hypervisor
News Microsoft's primary competition in the virtualisation world is industry leader VMware. Microsoft has said it will sell its new virtualisation technology separately from its Windows Server OS, in addition to as a bundle -... [13 Nov 2007]
VMware shows off next-gen virtualisation
News VMware has some new ideas for tackling an age-old problem for system administrators: how do you keep a computing service available when the server it's running on fails? Replay lets VMware's software log... [14 Sep 2007]
Ubuntu strips off for virtualisation
News In other news of partnerships between the virtualisation and open source realms, VMware announced a project called Open Virtual Machine Tools. Ubuntu sponsor Canonical is touting a version of its Linux software stripped... [12 Sep 2007]
Citrix snaffles XenSource for half a billion dollars
News Citrix Systems has said it intends to acquire open source virtualisation company XenSource for around $500m, a day after the spectacular public offering of virtualisation company VMware. The virtualisation market leader... [16 Aug 2007]
Insurer integrates four data centres
News The move to the new site has allowed the company to migrate 50 servers to a VMware virtualisation system, with a further 30 servers under review. Consumer insurance company Paymentshield has completed a technology... [09 Aug 2007]
VMware IPO set to raise $740m
News VMware, the EMC subsidiary that brought virtualisation software to the mainstream, said it expects to raise $741.4m in its initial public stock offering (IPO) - and added that Intel will supply another $218.5m. [10 Jul 2007]
Microsoft strips features from 'Viridian'
News The move limits Viridian's initial scope and gives more breathing room to competing projects - most notably Xen and VMware. He added: "For a (version) 1.0 virtualisation offering to be missing critical features a year... [11 May 2007]
Cost and energy benefits driving virtualisation
News Very successful it has been too, so much so that VMWare is now our stated 'preferred' platform of choice. Virtualisation will be a key infrastructure priority for CIOs looking to reduce costs and increase energy... [04 May 2007]
Microsoft puts brakes on Viridian
News The technology is catching on in mainstream servers using x86 processors such as AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon, and Microsoft is one of several competitors trying to win customers from market leader VMware. [13 Apr 2007]
Slower growth for server shipments: IDC
News EMC subsidiary VMware leads the market for x86 server virtualisation, which lets a single physical machine house multiple operating systems in compartments called virtual machines. IDC has lopped 4.5 million units off... [21 Mar 2007]
