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JP Morgan Analysis: NetApp beats EMC in ease of implementation in Data Centers
By Tarry Singh at 26 May, 2010, 6:29 am
NetApp is becoming the lead storage vendor in virtualised environments because it offers a more seamless and cost-effective approach than EMC. That’s the view of Mark Moscowitz, a J P Morgan analyst, in a note published on May 25. He says there is a secular shift to mid-range storage which is benefitting NetApp more than [...]
Read More >>VMforce: VMware and Salesforce to announce a joint-product on 27th April 2010!
By Tarry Singh at 15 April, 2010, 1:55 am
See the action erupting on VMforce.com soon
Read More >>VMware unveils its hybrid cloud vision
By Tarry Singh at 26 March, 2010, 12:17 am
While this is your private version which VMware already had running for its current customers and channel partners, it now wants a piece of public cloud and thus challenging the might of Amazon, Google and others who don’t use VMware’s product for public consumers. But it is very wise for VMware to start leveraging its [...]
Read More >>Cisco goes after Service Providers with the IaaS stack
By Tarry Singh at 27 January, 2010, 2:11 pm
Neat work and good to see that Cisco is going after the market itself. Sometimes you have to do things on your own. Anyways check out their Interactive Book as well to get a quick idea. Benefits: Access to world-class IT services on-demand Highly efficient, low-cost services without up-front investment Security and management provided by [...]
Read More >>Microsoft and HP tag team to take on Cisco, EMC and VMware
By Tarry Singh at 13 January, 2010, 11:06 am
The companies plan to deliver new solutions that will do the following: • Be built on a next-generation infrastructure-to-application model • Advance cloud computing by speeding application implementation • Eliminate complexities of IT management and automate existing manual processes to lower the overall costs This agreement represents the industry’s most comprehensive technology stack integration to [...]
Read More >>It’s official: VMware has acquired Zimbra!
By Tarry Singh at 12 January, 2010, 4:26 pm
Zimbra is a leading open source email and collaboration solution with over 55 million mailboxes. As an independent Yahoo! product division, Zimbra achieved 2009 mailbox growth of 86% overall and 165% among small and medium business customers. Based on a modern, flexible architecture designed for virtualization and cloud-scale infrastructure, the Zimbra technology provides substantially lower [...]
Read More >>Oracle rumored to snap up Citrix under IBM’s nose; VMware, are you listening?
By Tarry Singh at 6 January, 2010, 7:10 am
This would give Oracle stake in the desktop market dramatically. Oracle wants to be the IBM and this would beat IBM to its game and not to mention that VMware and other players will be stunned as Oracle huge and angry sales machine will go after the customers and the desktop market like never before. [...]
Read More >>Yahoo to offload Zimbra to VMware?
By Tarry Singh at 5 January, 2010, 1:26 am
El Reg reporting, stuff came originally on WSJ’s blog: A Yahoo! spokesman declined to discuss the rumor, saying “We don’t comment on rumors or speculation.” VMware told us the same thing. Rumors have swirled since September that Yahoo! was looking to offload Zimbra, which it acquired in the fall of 2007 for around $350m. Comcast [...]
Read More >>IBM Redbook on VMware: VMware Proof of Practice and Performance Guidelines on the SAN Volume Controller
By Tarry Singh at 1 January, 2010, 11:11 am
This IBM® Redpapers™ publication presents the results of I/O performance tests conducted using VMware ESX running on IBM System x® servers attached to the IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (SVC). We show the results of tests involving different work loads and I/O patterns and offer guidance about how best to use the SVC with [...]
Read More >>VMware leases some 50,000 feet more floorspace for Austin office
By Tarry Singh at 12 November, 2009, 2:45 pm
The move will see VMware have twice as much space as they have currently at Stonebridge Plaza II in the arboretum area. It’s one of the largest office deals this year and the move could also create new jobs in the area. Currently the Austin office has 150 employees but there are rumors that number [...]
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