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Article | 31/12/2010 What you need to know about the year of the cloud
2010 saw Microsoft make a big grab for the cloud, while big business got serious about building clouds of its own
Article | 17/12/2010 Amazon moves VMware's virtual machines to the cloud
Amazon Web Services has announced a new feature called VM Import, which allows IT departments to move virtual machine images from their internal data ...
Article | 16/12/2010 VMware users pack 16 VMs on each server, despite memory constraints
VMware customers run an average of 12.5 virtual machines on each physical server, but high levels of consolidation are driven in large part by prolife...
Article | 9/12/2010 LG, VMware aim to deliver two phones in one
The agreement announced this week by VMware and LG electronics will act a proof of concept of VMware's virtualization technology on mobile devices, bu...
Article | 9/12/2010 Salesforce aims to be one-stop shop for cloud development
Salesforce.com's announcement Wednesday of plans to buy Heroku, as well as a rebranding of its array of services, makes it clear the vendor wants to b...
Article | 8/12/2010 VMware to virtualize Android smartphones for business users
VMware is teaming with LG to sell Android smartphones that are virtualized, allowing a single phone to run two operating systems, one for business use...
Article | 30/11/2010 Start-up transforms unused desktop cycles into fast server clusters
When you consider technologies that make corporate IT more efficient by improving utilization of computing resources, <a href="http://www.networkworld...
Article | 23/11/2010 Compellent adds virtualization, hardware upgrades to its SAN
Compellent Technologies today announced the availability of the latest version of its storage area network (SAN) technology, Storage Center 5.4 SAN, w...
Article | 23/11/2010 Why Novell is worth $2.2 billion to Attachmate
Novell has long since lost its position as a dominant vendor in the operating system market, but the vendor's long, slow decline didn't change the fac...
Article | 15/11/2010 Cisco announces virtual desktops for video collaboration
Cisco today announced two new virtual desktop devices, more efficient virtualization software and more affordable videoconferencing endpoints, buildin...
Article | 12/11/2010 Cloud execs: Traditional vendors slow adoption
A group of cloud providers blamed traditional hardware and software companies for their role in discouraging cloud adoption, pointing fingers at Oracl...
Article | 11/11/2010 Oracle praised for switch on VMware RAC support
Oracle has reportedly changed its position on support for its RAC (Real Application Clusters) software running in VMware virtualized environments, say...
Article | 5/11/2010 Microsoft: We're more enterprise-ready than Google Apps
Microsoft is bolstering its cloud presence with its Office 365 cloud application suite and believes it has more to offer enterprises than Google has w...
Article | 29/10/2010 VMware's private cloud computing vision
VMware wants people to be able to access enterprise applications with the same ease and flexibility they enjoy from Facebook and Gmail. That is, on an...
Article | 26/10/2010 Burning question: How can security risks be mitigated in virtualised systems?
"Virtualisation is not inherently insecure. However, most virtualised workloads are being deployed insecurely."