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RSS vmware in newsData centre costs top reason for virtualisation
News One of the sponsors of the research was virtualisation-software supplier VMware. VMware is still the comfortable leader in the virtualisation market, with 82 per cent of European companies that have adopted virtualisation using VMware software... [08 Jul 2008]
HP Integrity gets Parallel virtualisation
News HP and Parallels (formerly SWsoft) are coming into a highly competitive market dominated by hypervisor-based vitualisation from companies like market leaders VMware and Citrix, with its XenServer. Parallels' Containers partition an operating system... [03 Jul 2008]
Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices
News This is a virtual machine, built with a tool such as Ace from VMware or Sentillion's vThere or the Kidaro Managed Workspace product, which, of course, Microsoft has now bought. A recent study from analyst house Gartner into employee-owned-notebook... [30 Jun 2008]
Microsoft launches into virtualisation
News Hyper-V, launched on Thursday, is not Microsoft's first virtualisation product, and will face competition from vendors such as VMware, the market leader in virtualisation. Rival VMware responded to the release of Hyper-V by claiming Microsoft has... [27 Jun 2008]
Virtualisation: IT managers warned of security challenges
News Stephen Herrod, chief technology officer for VMware, who was also speaking at the RSA Conference, claimed virtualisation would improve IT security due to fewer third-party drivers introducing vulnerabilities. [16 Apr 2008]
Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys
News Diane Greene VMware Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of Software and... [03 Mar 2008]
IT skills shortage hits 10-year high
News It predicts that those workers with business analysis, network support, .NET Oracle, SAP, VMware, web development and project management skills will be in high demand over the next two years. The IT sector is suffering its worst shortage of skills... [11 Feb 2008]
Steve 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 companies in the online world... [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 in the support sphere. [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 "twice altered the direction of... [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 - the 'Truffle 100'. [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 relieved by 2010, said... [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 - a reversal of its earlier... [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 the actions of software running in a... [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 down for use just on... [12 Sep 2007]
