IBM Adds More Virtualization Capabilities to Power Systems, Eyeing Sun and HP

IBM, which combined its System i and System p server product lines earlier this year, is revamping its Power Systems to offer more systems for enterprise and midmarket customers.

HP Buys LeftHand Networks For $360 Million In Cash

HP today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks, a provider of storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions who recently came out with some impressive numbers.

vMAN Over At DMTF Is Immune To Kryptonite And Now Powered by OVF Version 1.0

In this exclusive interview at VMworld in Las Vegas, DMTF president Winston Bumpus reveals the release of OVF 1.0 and their larger Virtualization Management Initiative(vMAN). VMAN provides IT managers the freedom to deploy pre-installed, pre-configured solutions across heterogeneous computing networks and to manage those applications through their entire lifecycle.

Video interview with Nick Van Der Zweep, Virtualization Director at HP (Part 3/4)

In this third part of our recent HP interview, Nick Van Der Zweep predicts Desktop Virtualization to be the next big tipping point in our industry. He adds this is one of the areas were HP is differentiating itself from IBM with a full desktop-to-data-center strategy.

“People like IBM are still struggling to catch up to that because they’ve got management systems for every platform that they have and trying to pull that together. That’s critically important to be able to see holistic view of the entire data center…”

But also when it comes to flexible and usage-based data center pricing models and cloud computing, Nick claims HP is a pioneer with clients such as Dreamworks, rendering their movies on HP’s excess infrastructure.

The Opsware acquisition is referred to often in this interview when it comes to HP offering the full broad enterprise management software and configuration management

Video interview with Nick Van Der Zweep, Virtualization Director at HP (Part 1/4)

In this first part of our lengthy video interview (4 parts) with Nick Van Der Zweep, Director for Virtualization at HP, we get introduced to how HP defines virtualization as flowing computing resources around and how this drops your costs and increases agility from desktop virtualization to data center virtualization and storage.

Demand Media Picks 3PAR for Scaling Utility Storage

3PAR, provider of utility storage, announced today that Demand Media has chosen 3PAR Utility Storage to support its rapidly growing social media business.