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XenServer for Free !

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With VMWorld Europe coming up,it seems
Citrix is trying to get VMWare out of its warm cozy mansion, it seems they plan to announce next week that they won’t charge anymore for XenServer.
Altough the underlying Xen technology is fully Open source , Citrix doesn’t plan on fully opensourcing XenServer itselve yet. So [...]

19Feb2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

KVM Lives On At Red Hat, So Now What?

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Over a year after the first big Open Source Virtualization acquisition, Citrix Acquiring Xensource, the next industry shaking acquisition is a fact. Red Hat has reeled in Virtualization startup Qumranet, While RedHat had already announced that they were going to support both KVM and Xen in their product range , taking [...]

27Sep2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Sneak Preview on VMworld 2008 and its artwork (video).

VMware hired the prestigious design agency Cahan & Associates for VMWorld 200! They came up with edgy creations that underline customer ‘references/quotes’ and are supposed to make us all connect at a very human level. If you are into ‘minimalist cool’ and like the artwork too, you will be happy to learn that you can order your own illustration styled photo at YouAreArt or can style your free avatar at FaceYourManga. Have fun.

15Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | Continued

Citrix To Jump On Cloud Wagon, But How?

Tarry is hinting at a “big” announcement that Citrix will make on September 15th. He reveals nothing, apparently having signed an NDA, but hints that the news concerns his topic of focus of lately. An acquisition? A major update of their product line?

10Sep2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

Stealth “Laptop Virtualization” Company Virtual Computer Readying Launch

Westford-based Old Road Computing plans to publicly launch as Virtual Computer Inc., but isn’t revealing many specifics about its virtualization product, nor when it will be released.

29Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued

Trading Activity In NetApp, VMware Spikes

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, stocks of both NetApp and VMware have been trading at unusual volumes yesterday.

28Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

What’s All This Talk About VMware Buying Red Hat?

We were looking at the swirling rumors coming in about a potential acquisition of Red Hat by VMware, and ultimately decided not to cover the rumor because … well because it seems so irrational. But does it?

22Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 3 comments | Continued

There We Go Again: EMC Shares Rise On Acquisition Rumors

This is one rumor that just keeps coming back: Reuters is reporting that EMC shares rose as much as 6.3 percent yesterday on market speculation that the world’s largest maker of corporate storage equipment could be acquired. The company stills holds a majority stake in virtualization juggernaut VMware.

31Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued

EMC Reports Strong Q2 Results, Might Spin Off VMware Anyway

So VMware performed below expectations, but how did parent company EMC do the past quarter? Not too shabby, actually. In its Q2 Earnings conference call (see transcript here), the company outlined that it had performed well against the backdrop of a challenging economic environment, although its outlook for the future was less rosy.

24Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued

EMC Shares Up On VMware Spin-out Rumors

Financial analyst Thomas Curlin of RBC Capital Markets upped his rating on the EMC stock to “Outperform” from “Sector Perform”, even as it trimmed the stock’s price target from $21 to a more modest $19. The focus of his call: the prospects for a spin-out of the company’s stake in VMware.

8Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

What’s Up At Virtugo Software?

Virtugo Software seems to have closed shop after one of the co-founders, Chris Dickson, left the company to become a VP at Computer Associates.

2Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 4 comments | Continued

Microsoft Shipping Hyper-V Tomorrow? (Update: Yes)

Hyper-V, Microsoft’s proprietary hypervisor is currently in Release Candidate mode, but the final, nonbeta version could be shipping tomorrow, according to SearchWinIT. That would be well before the company’s projected release date (which would be in about 2 months).

25Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 3 comments | Continued
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