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VMware Arms for Microsoft Battle

By PrasenJit Sarkar at 30 June, 2009, 9:39 am

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 run VMware, a software company with $1.9 billion in revenue that has become the standard-setter [...]

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VDI joint-venture: Sun and Ringcube integrate desktop virtualization stuff

By PrasenJit Sarkar at 29 June, 2009, 11:20 am

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 Ray VDI technology the ability to more effectively and cheaply roll out personalized virtual desktops, [...]

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Dell Introduces Virtualization Consulting Services

By PrasenJit Sarkar at 24 June, 2009, 10:49 am

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 array.
Dell officials announced new “flexible and modular” virtualization consulting services. The Dell ProConsult offerings use [...]

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