Rumours
Which Technology Is Cooking In The VMware Kitchen?
In a blog post aptly titled ‘Phwaar’, VMware System Engineer Andrew DugDell reveals absolutely nothing about a new technology that’s internally available, but makes us darn curious in the process.
23Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM / Cisco Eyeing Acquisition of Citrix?
Nasdaq traders bid up Citrix stock Tuesday on takeover rumors that have either IBM or Cisco purchasing the application delivery vendor. Citrix’s stock went from a low of $30.60 Tuesday to a high of $33.75. Rumors of Citrix being purchased fueled the higher trading prices, says Jeffrey Gaggin, an enterprise software analyst for Avian Securities.
9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedDell Reportedly Plans To Give Away VMware ESX Server 3i For Free, World Keeps Turning
According to The Inquirer, it appears Dell is considering to stop charging VMware ESX Server 3i licensing fees on its PowerEdge servers to its customers. This was reportedly said by VMWare’s Senior Product Marketing Manager Martin Niemer and comes two weeks after the virtualization vendor announced it would start embedding the 32 MB hypervisor across Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP and IBM servers.
15Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 4 comments | ContinuedWill Increasing Memory Costs Slow Down Virtualization Growth?
Memory vendor Kingston Technology says memory in industry standard servers is causing virtualization projects to become unnecessarily expensive and that fears over warranties are holding back users from upgrading.
11Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedWhich Deals Will HP Be Announcing Soon?
Reuters is reporting Hewlett-Packard is set to announce a series of deals this month expanding the server virtualization software it sells with its servers, quoting HP Vice President Mark Linesch.
7Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedEMC To Release Controller Based Virtualization Later This Year?
According to the bloggers from RupturedMonkey, citing an ex-employee as ‘very credible source’, EMC is developing a controller to be built into a future release of Enginuity and rolled out in the DMX.
5Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedInternal Memo From VMWare Staff Criticizes Microsoft And Questions Its Partnership With Citrix
When
Microsoft issued a long press release last week on its ‘
Vision and Strategy to Accelerate Virtualization Adoption ‘, the internal sales channel at VMWare
apparently got a memo downplaying MSFT’s announcements and instructing their commercial team to further question the Microsoft-Citrix partnership and its ability to survive Redmond’s plans with virtualization in front […]
To Virtualize or not to Virtualize (Windows Vista),That’s The Question
Just in case you haven’t heard,
Microsoft flip-flopped its earlier decision not to allow users to run Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium as guest operating systems on a virtual machine. Mac users, and virtualization software vendors such as Parallels can rejoice over the news, which has been extensively
covered all over the web […]
PortableApps Following In Thinstall’s Acquisition Footsteps?
Joe Foran is speculating a future acquisition of application virtualization provider
PortableApps on the
Server Virtualization Blog .
“There are, of course, differences, but the overall business models are very similar. PA is an open-source outfit, which makes them a bit more transparent than Thinstall, which has a mix of OSS and proprietary products. Since […]
19Jan2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedPatch Management Coming to a Citrix XenServer Near You
Roger Klorese , Product Marketing Manager for
Citrix XenServer , wrote a
blog post revealing a major upcoming new feature in XenServer: pool-wide Patch Management.
“XenServer has had a relatively small number of patches, and in the case of security advisories, we’ve been consistently able to announce the fix for an issue very quickly, or […]
17Jan2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
