Rumors

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 | 0 comments | 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 | 3 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

Citrix XenDesktop To Be iPhone Compatible Soon?

In an interview, Dennis Rose, VP of Citrix Pacific, touted desktop virtualization as the next big thing alongside server virtualization. Short of news, the interview did have an interesting ending. Apparently, AVP for Citrix ANZ Rob Willis hinted at Citrix XenDesktop - iPhone compatibility when the most hyped phone in history hits the Australian market in a couple of months.

28May2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Native Support for Virtual Hard Disks To Be Added To Windows 7?

A team at Microsoft is hiring developers to work on adding native support in Windows 7 for Virtual Hard Disks (VHD) - Microsoft’s semi-proprietary specification for single-file virtual machine hard disks, reports the istartedsomething blog.

23May2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Citrix XenApp 5.0 Delayed For Months?

Independent technology analyst & author Brian Madden is speculating a multiple-month delay for Citrix XenApp 5.0, not hearing anything about it at Citrix’ annual Synergy event.

22May2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued

Cisco And EMC To Merge?

We love rumors. This time, it’s not about EMC selling off its majority stake in VMware to say, Intel. President and chief editor of TMC, Rich Tehrani, is throwing another sweet-sounding one into the air: an upcoming merger between Cisco and EMC.

19May2008 | Robin Wauters | 5 comments | Continued
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