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Monthly Archives: June 2009
VMware Arms for Microsoft Battle
Former Microsoft executives Paul Maritz and Tod Nielsen know a thing or two about how the software giant snuffs out budding threats. They helped Microsoft battle upstart Netscape in the late 1990s. Now they’re on the receiving end.
Maritz and Nielsen [...]
Posted in 2009, Cloud, Computing, Economy, Microsoft, Strategy, Virtualization, VMware
Tagged Analysis
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VDI joint-venture: Sun and Ringcube integrate desktop virtualization stuff
Sun’s SunRay technology is pretty cool and is definitely the best stuff to look at, after all Sun has been using it for a long time for its corporate employees.
The partnership will bring to enterprises that are using Sun’s Sun [...]
Posted in 2009, Cloud, Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization
Tagged Sun, VDI
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VMworld 2009: VMware! Shutting HP out, is it worth the risk?
Update 2 28th June 2009: After the whole twitter world getting a bit fired up by this post I just want to say one thing of all the possible [and unrealistic, according to some, circumstances] that the following are the [...]
DARPA’s challenge to computing community: Build us a super petaflop computer that fits in 19” cabinet!
El Reg reporting. While the Bush gov was run by mules, this gov is really taking some daring steps. Take a look at the notional self-aware OS (SAOS) on page 8.
The military boffins say none of that is acceptable. They [...]
NY stock exchange choose networking giant Juniper’s gear with 10GbE switches!
This roadmap includes a set of 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches and routers available today and evolving to future products, developed under the code-name of Project Stratus at Juniper with Sun Microsystems’ former chip guru David Yen steering development. The devices [...]
HP’s storage blades for the future!
Very interesting indeed. We must not forget HP, IBM are powerhouses that will not take notice of the noises and will work harder on making their vision of being a one-stop-shop a reality. Many others are still trying to find [...]
Posted in 2009, Cloud, Computing, DataCenter, Storage, Strategy, Virtualization
Tagged Blades, HP
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Oracle’s InterCloud Initiative: Oracle VM 2.1.5 released with Web Services API
From Oracle’s virtualization blog
We are pleased to announce the availability of Oracle VM 2.1.5, bringing customers and partners the benefits of better interoperability with the new Oracle VM Manager Web Services API.
In addition, the latest Oracle VM 2.1.5 release has [...]
Dell Introduces Virtualization Consulting Services
Dell has expanded its virtualization technology portfolio to assist organizations striving to make datacenters and IT operations work more efficiently.
The company has introduced virtualization and datacenter consulting services, business-ready virtualization configurations, new Dell PowerEdge servers and the EqualLogic PS4000 storage [...]
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Oracle beats expectations; books strong financial earnings
The company was also pleased with its non-GAAP results, which discount certain nonrecurring costs.
“We executed substantially better than we expected on both the top and bottom line for the quarter,” Oracle CFO Jeff Epstein said in a statement. “We grew [...]
Data Center buildout continues – Amazon is building another one in Oregon
Amazon buys a large volume of servers to support its cloud computing operations. It was the top customer for Rackable Systems/SGI in 2008, buying more than $86 million of the company’s cloud-optimized servers and storage.
Amazon is known to already operate [...]