| VMware Doubles Revenue Flow Over Q2 2009 |
Net income for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company rocketed to $74.5 million -- or 18 cents per share -- from the Q2 2009 total of $32.5 million, or 8 cents per share. Revenue rose 48 percent to $673.9 million from $455.7 million a year ago. -
Virtualization software market leader VMware, which wasn't affected all
that much by the 2008 and 2009 global economy setbacks, reported July 20
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| CA Unveils Virtualization, Cloud Management Apps |
CA Technologies in May took the wraps off its CA Virtual portfolio of virtualization and cloud management products. CA is releasing some of those offerings, as well as a new one for managing user privileges. - Two months after unveiling a host of new virtualization management solutions at their CA World 2010 show, company officials are now releasing the offerings.
CA Technologies on July 19 ann ... More |
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| Dell, Liquidware Labs Team Up on Desktop Virtualization |
Dell Services representatives will leverage migration and monitoring tools from Liquidware Labs to make it easier to migrate businesses to a desktop virtualization environment. - Dell Services is teaming up with Liquidware Labs to make it easier for
businesses to make the migration to virtual desktop environments.
Dell Services officials said July 15 that they will leverage
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| VMware's Road Map Directed Squarely at the Cloud |
The virtualization leader's chief cloud manager assesses current market trends and explains to eWEEK why the company's acquisition of Gemstone will become strategically important as time goes on. - Having pretty much conquered the world of data center virtualization software for the present time, VMware now wants the IT galaxy to view it as more than simply an important middleware provider.
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| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Gets SP1 Flexibility |
Review: eWEEK Labs encountered a few snags testing SLES 11 with SUSE Linux Enterprise 11's Service Pack 1, especially involving KVM and Hyper-V, but Novell is doing a good job of maintaining SLES as a leading enterprise operating system that should be evaluated by any organization that employs virtualization. - With the first
service-pack update to its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, Novell ha ... More |
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| VMware vSphere 4.1 Features Large Capacity Cluster, VM Density |
Review: VMware vSphere 4.1's memory compression, storage and network I/O control, along with a cluster limit increase, make the latest virtual machine platform suited for enterprise production use. - VMware vSphere 4.1 continues to lead the enterprise virtual
machine platform pack. New memory management, storage and network control
features enable resource pool creation that improves scale whil ... More |
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| VMware Ships New vSphere Version, Changes Pricing Model |
vSphere 4.1 includes improvements most new data center software brings to the table: faster performance, more scaling capability and better management control. But an upcoming change in VMware's vCenter licensing model is also worth noting. - VMware on July 13 came out with a new version of its mainline vSphere
virtualization platform that is aimed directly at cloud computing in markets it
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| VSphere 4.1 Maintains VMware at the Front of the Virtual Infrastructure Pack |
| VMware punched up additional networking, memory and storage management features to put further polish on the flagship data center virtualization offering. - ... ... More |
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| Taking Control of VMs |
VMware vSphere 4.1s new features act as a referee when VMs contend for scarce resources. - VMware vSphere 4.1 has a lot more
moving parts. Memory compression and the addition of I/O controls for
networking and storage, which join those already found in the CPU, are
responsible for this increase.
For data center managers, the new
capabilities are a boon. The features basically act as... ... More |
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| Veeam Reporter 4.0 Gives the Scoop on VMware vSphere Deployments |
Version 4.0 of Veeam Reporter supercharges the VMware vSphere information-gathering process, swiftly and intuitively providing valuable insight into complex infrastructures. - The
rapid growth of virtualization has created complex IT environments that are
becoming increasingly harder to manage. Part of that management challenge comes
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| NEC Supports VMware Virtualization on Fault-Tolerant Servers |
NEC officials say VMware's vSphere 4 virtualization platform is now supported on NEC fault-tolerant servers, which will give uptime assurance to virtualized environments running on the high-availability systems. - NEC Corp. of America
is offering native VMware vSphere support on its fault-tolerant servers.
NEC officials announced June 29 that the company's
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| Managing Capacity in Virtualized Environments |
| Balancing the demands for resources in a virtualized environment requires a new approach to capacity management. For example, over-allocated virtual machines (VMs) represent wasted capacity, which needs to be identified and reclaimed. And poor VM placement can decrease utilization and cause resource contention. This video discusses capacity management challenges introduced by using virtualization ... More |
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| 10 Best Practices for Data Center Consolidation |
| Virtualization for consolidating servers and storage arrays isn't just a smart idea anymore& it's a de facto data center best practice. As enterprise data center managers and CIOs/CTOs update their legacy systems, they are using virtualization as a way to get better utilization out of their existing servers and storage arrays and to cut down on the number of machines taking power out of the wa ... More |
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| VMware Security Appliance Marketplace's Top 5 Rated Appliances |
| The VMware appliance marketplace for secure content and threat management products is a site to visit for suggestions and trial copies. eWEEK Labs sifted through the top rated products to distill the following collection of security tools that can run as virtual appliances in a VMware environment. Although some of the products were outdated and more than a few of the top rated products are miscate ... More |
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| VMware Workstation 7.1 vs. Oracle VirtualBox 3.2.4 |
| The latest versions of VMware Workstation 7.1 and Oracle VirtualBox 3.2 proved that the competition in the personal desktop virtualization space is pushing the products to speed up everything from graphics to virtual machine configuration. In the following screens you can see some of the most significant new features in both virtualization tools. Whether you need more virtual CPU or core processin ... More |
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