All Posts Tagged With: "VMWorld"
Research: Hardware Server Sales Slump as IT Pros Bet On Virtualization and Consolidation
TheInfoPro, an independent research company, today released new real-time data from its pending Server Study (final results due in October, Q3 2009) indicating that more than 50% of new servers being installed in 2009 will host virtualization, and future progressive growth indicates 80% by 2012.
1Sep2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVMware ready for “war” with Citrix
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Yesterday at “VMworld day 0″ (the partner and developer day) at the partner briefing, VMware VP of Field Operations Carl Eschenbach was sounding pretty confident about the future of desktop virtualization.
VMware has been banging the VDI drum for a few years now. So far VMware has signed up a little over 7000 customers, good for [...]
VMworld 2009 keynote – day one
VMworld 2009 has officially kicked off. The first keynote didn’t bring much real news. As usually, the keynote consisted of mostly marketing speak, customer testimonials and demos by sponsors and partners. New developments usually are announced during the CTO keynote, which is coming tomorrow.
1Sep2009 | Lode Vermeiren | 1 comment | ContinuedF5 Solution Enables Cloud Connection for Live Application Mobility
F5 Networks today announced that it will be demonstrating a solution that affords businesses seamless flexibility in leveraging both public and private clouds.
31Aug2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVMware To Debut New Products: VMware Go and vCenter Product Family
VMware is launching two new products at VMworld, its annual conference, tomorrow. The first is a suite of VMware’s existing virtualization solutions, called the VMware vCenter Product Family. VMware’s second product launch is VMware Go, targeted towards small to medium sized businesses.
31Aug2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVMworld Europe Day 2 – Dr. Stephen Herrod Keynote liveblog
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Stay tuned for the liveblog of the keynote by Dr. Stephen Herrod, VMware CTO, live from VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes, France.
Stephen Herrod was one of the original developers of ESX predecessor
SimOS while at Stanford University (
His homepage from the time is still online.). He worked at
Transmeta, where he worked on their “code [...]
VMworld Europe Day 1 – Paul Maritz keynote unveils new vPrefix product naming convention and talks about upcoming VMware vSphere, Intel vPro partnership
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After “day 0″, partner day, VMworld Europe opened its doors for the general audience today.
vSphere is the official name of the new VMware platform, but the VMware marketing department has not applied their new naming convention vPrefix to all products & initiatives yet. Some VMware partners are already doing the same, such as Intel with [...]
VMware Europe 2009: Call For Papers
VMworld Europe is coming up soon (February 24-26, 2009) and is once again being held in Cannes, France. The team has just issued a call for papers, deadline January 16th, so if you’re interested in participating don’t hesitate too long.
6Jan2009 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedVideo: Interview Simon Crosby, CTO of XenSource – Citrix (VMworld 2008) part 2/2
In this second part of our video interview recorded at VMworld2008, the Citrix XenSource CTO denies that there is more than a ‘faboulous partnership’ between Microsoft and Citrix. In his typical outspoken style, Simon Crosby does not see his competitor VMware take of into the clouds with vaporware. He remains an advocate for open standards and finished by shining his light on Virtualization Security issues (aka VirtSec by the insiders).
13Nov2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | ContinuedVideo: Interview Simon Crosby, CTO of XenSource – Citrix (VMworld 2008) part 1/2
This interview was recorded at VMWorld 2008 in Las Vegas and features Simon Crosby, CTO of XenSource (Citrix) onf the future of Virtualization in general and related security, networking and I/O in particular.
11Nov2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | ContinuedMarketing Fail: Falconstor Screws Up Giveaway Contest at VMworld
Falconstor, provider of data protection solutions, screwed up a giveaway at their booth to the extent of turning the contestants against them.
6Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedMicrosoft Bashes VMware With A New Website; “Get The Facts” Revisited?
Microsoft had people outside the VMworld conference in Las Vegas, distributing dollar chips and flyers, advertising the VmwareCostsWayTooMuch.com website.
23Sep2008 | Toon Vanagt | 3 comments | Continued




