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  • VMware disses bare-metal desktop hypervisors

    VMware is claiming it doesn't need to deliver on its promise of a bare-metal desktop hypervisor, but says that if it does choose to release a so-called Type 1 client hypervisor it would be better than Citrix's. "Let's set the record straight there," says Vittorio Viarengo, vice president of desktop marketing for VMware. "If there's one company that can nail a client hypervisor, it's VMware."

  • Gartner projecting weaker Second Half for PC Shipments

    The research company downgraded its forecast for PC shipments during the second half, saying it will grow by 15.3 percent, which is around 2 percent lower than the previous forecast.Consumer and business demand for PCs will remain strong and continue to grow, but at slower rates relative to earlier expectations, said Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner.

  • Cloud Market Leaders Turn to 3PAR and VMware for Cloud-Scale Virtualization

    “3PAR Utility Storage is storage built for virtualized environments and the delivery of IT as a service,” said David Scott, President and CEO for 3PAR. “We believe that utility storage arrays from 3PAR and virtualization technologies like VMware vSphere are essential tools for any service provider looking to build an agile and efficient virtualized environment to meet the large-scale demands of cloud service delivery.”

  • Novell rolls Cloud-Security Service

    That on-premises component becomes the central point for enabling control over password-based authentication, and the provisioning of SaaS services and the immediate de-provisioning of them when it's determined an employee's use of SaaS should be terminated. Novell has been at work on the cloud-security project, which makes use of open protocols such as SAML, for over a year.

  • NetApp, Syncsort team up on data protection

    A single product combines backup, recovery, snapshots, deduplication and storage capacity.The Integrated Backup product combines Syncsort BEX data protection software, NetApp Protection Pack software and NetApp FAS20140-series disk systems.

  • Trend Micro brings encryption to the cloud

    SecureCloud allows you to maintain control over the encryption key used to secure data stored in the Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus or VMware vCloud cloud infrastructures. Other cloud-computing variants could be added in the future.

  • VMware grows cloud stack with two acquisitions

    One company is performance analytics specialist Integrien, and the other is federated-access-management software provider TriCipher. VMware, which announced the pending acquisitions at its VMworld conference taking place this week in San Francisco, did not disclose financial details of the transactions. The company plans to complete the acquisitions by the end of September.

  • 3PAR Is Not The Only Cloud Storage Game In Town

    Dell should keep in mind that 3PAR is not the only cloud storage company. 3PAR would expand the services offerings for either company enabling more diversification from the waning server and desktop hardware sales revenue, and providing a cloud-based storage offering that is appealing to many business customers, opines Tony Bradley, Co-author, Unified Communications for Dummies.

  • Cisco Making A Play For Skype?

    Cisco is reportedly looking to buy Skype before the Internet phone provider goes public while it would be a multibillion purchase as Skype is looking to raise $5 billion in its initial offer. A blog states Google also may be interested in Skype but could be precluded from making an offer for the company due to antitrust concerns.

  • Citrix Buys VMlogix

    The acquisition is part of a bigger push to address vendor lock-in and offer more self-service tools. Citrix will also add technology from VMLogix to its Citrix OpenCloud platform so that its public-cloud-provider customers can offer lifecycle management capabilities like quality assurance and business continuity.