VMware

Gartner: Will VMware become the next Novell?

While some comments there [including mine] were re-pondering over the Gartner ponder, I just couldn’t help wondering over the session I just gave on Smart Metering the Clouds about the “stupidity” of us people/humans and how we always tend to choose/make the “right” decisions.
History teaches us just one thing: “A distant memory of pain/defeat experienced [...]

openQRM 4.5 Cloud Platform released with VCD (Visual Cloud Designer) and lots of features!

As you all know, openQRM is my favorite open source data center management product. Look at those new cool features…
Some more highlights of openQRM 4.5 :

A new plugin now integrates with Dell Equallogic Storage to support direct deployment of physical systems or virtual machines from the Equallogic Iscsi Target and to take advantage [...]

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

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 observations I can make now:
1. Cisco doing what it should be doing: Cisco is and [...]

Introducing Jit - a VMware phreak, programmer and a Linux lover as co-blogger!

Prasenjit is a rather experienced and smart dude who works for HP in India and does some excellent work there. I’ve known him for quite a while and am glad to have him play the expert here who will tell you some really cool stuff about VMware that you may have never heard of, so [...]

IBM Cloudbursting with ESXi

Our security friend at VMW, Charu, is reporting that ESXi is being used at IBM for Cloudbursting.

Holy shite, VMworld no more the independent virtualization event?

With the blogosphere getting all mad about VMware’s attempt to make it a solo show where groupies and fanbois will go and hug each other and competitors will grope in the dark outside, VMware surely pulled some muscle and a lot of negative response from its trusted bloggers, some who also spent their precious time [...]

VMware invests in Terramark

Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK) is not a name that normally comes up in discussions among tech investors, although it is a provider of managed IT infrastructure services. What is going to draw attention to it on Tuesday is that virtualization leader VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) is taking an equity stake in Terremark.
VMware will buy 4 [...]

EXANODES VM EDITION STORAGE VIRTUAL APPLIANCE NOW SHIPPING

Boston, May xx, 2009 – Seanodes, the creator and leading developer of Shared Internal Storage solutions, today announced first official customer shipments of its Storage Virtual Appliance, the award-winning Exanodes™ software for VMware environments.
Exanodes VM Edition Storage Virtual Appliance (SVA) is ideal for designing high-end, clustered virtual iSCSI SANs that leverage the storage resources of [...]

VMware vSphere is here

“With VMware vSphere 4, we are once again raising the bar significantly for businesses that desire to dramatically improve IT performance,” said Raghu Raghuram, vice president and general manager, server business unit, VMware. “The cost savings associated with virtualization are undeniable, and as more customers standardize on VMware to drive 100 percent virtualization, they are [...]