There’s a big scorch mark where server sales used to be according to IDC, which put out its worst-since-records-have-been-kept Q2 figures Wednesday, hoping that with the installed base growing increasing hoary with age buyers are starting to replace them.
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The easiest way to build a bridge between private and public clouds is to own both ends of the bridge, which is exactly what VMware is proposing to do with a scheme it calls vCloud Express.
VMware figures it’s got the internal private cloud covered with its vSphere widgetry.
Now ...
In competition with VMware this week Red Hat trotted out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, the commercial point upgrade that includes its Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) mojo, which is integrated into the Linux kernel, a factor that should give it operating efficiencies like the 16 virt...
Red Hat Thursday unveiled Deltacloud, a new open source project aimed at enabling an ecosystem of developers, tools, scripts and applications that can interoperate across the public and private clouds complements of a common REST-based API that developers can write to once and manage a...
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has rescued Microsoft Word from being clamped in injunctive leg irons, barred from sale on the US market.
On Thursday the court gave Microsoft the stay it was looking for while it appeals the decision of a Texas district court that it ...
The worst fears of Sun’s long-suffering shareholders have come to pass.
The European Commission has opened up a full-blown antitrust investigation of Oracle’s proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun, throwing a monkey wrench into plans to close the deal now.
A decision on wheth...
Adaptive Computing, the company behind the Moab unified intelligent automation technology, plans to offer its Moab Adaptive HPC Suite and Moab Adaptive Computing Suite on IBM’s System x, BladeCenter and iDataPlex server families to create dynamic, intelligent HPC clusters in data cente...
Astaro Corporation, a 150-man German network security vendor started by a college dropout infected with the viral get-rich-quick fever that was pandemic at the turn of the century, is going to give away an open source-based business firewall for VMware.
The object of the game is to...
VMware started chasing small and mid-size customers Monday with a beta of VMware Go, a free web-based service that automates ESXi installation and configuration so first-time customers can get started with virtualization. It’s supposed to “dramatically” simplify the process of virtuali...
Kace claims to have elbowed its way to the forefront of application virtualization innovation with the latest version of its Virtual Kontainers technology, its way of handling the application lifecycle.
It’s only been in the application virtualization business a few months and the ...
Altor Networks’ virtual firewall is finally working inside the VMware hypervisor kernel, solving a problem created by virtual switches. It’s reportedly the first security product to land inside the hypervisor complements of the VMsafe APIs network APIs in fast-path mode used to develop...
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services arm of Wipro Ltd, says it’s going into the SaaS business with w-SaaS, a platform for rapid Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enablement of business applications using Oracle Grid Computing and Oracle application grid middleware.
The platform is ...
At VMworld today HP announced what it says is the first virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution for under $1,000 a seat. The HP Virtual Desktop Reference Architecture for VMware was demonstrated during VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s keynote presentation and is currently being deployed ...
Brace yourself. The cloud’s next phase is upon us. It’s the one-up phase, where cloud service providers each claim to be snazzier than the next guy.
Savvis, a pioneer in virtualized utility services, previewed its next-generation VMware-based cloud infrastructure platform at VMworld...
CA CEO John Swainson, the IBMer brought in five years ago in the aftermath of the $2 billion stock fraud that ultimately sent one of his predecessors to a federal pokey for a 12-year hitch, wants to retire by the end of year, if not before. CA’s board is now looking for a replacement. ...
In its second purchase in two days EMC said late Tuesday that it was buying eDiscovery shop Kazeon Systems Inc, whose software is used by corporations, law firms, government agencies and legal service providers.
Terms were not disclosed and are too immaterial to impact EMC’s result...
VMware said Tuesday that it has sent its vCloud API to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to standardize the mobility, provisioning, management and the service assurance of applications running in internal and external clouds. The submission is part of the VMware’s vCloud Ini...
As the clock ticks and the September 3 deadline nears, speculation is rising that the European Commission may throw a spanner into the Oracle-Sun merger and delay things another four months.
Reuters said late Tuesday that EC regulators were fretting over the competitive implication...
EMC said Monday that it’s acquired FastScale Technology Inc for its Ionix Software Group, thinking its data center provisioning widgetry will increase the performance and scalability of private cloud infrastructures.
FastScale’s flagship Composer Suite is a fully automated platform...
Verizon Business, a unit of Verizon Communications and another of VMware’s little friends, has extended its cloud-based Computing-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution to its data center in Amsterdam to address Europe’s stringent regulations.
It says the Amsterdam location benefits companie...
Waving around a new benchmark run by the Taneja Group, VMware claims that vSphere 4 offers the highest consolidation ratios in the business and that that could translate into hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings for some customers.
Seems vSphere 4 can run twice as many appli...
At the risk of being redundant, Gmail has come a cropper again.
It’s been down this time for hours and hours with no explanation given other than a “service outage” note.
At around 4pm Eastern time Google’s Apps Status page finally said, “Google Mail service has already been re...
An investor group led by Silver Lake, the technology-minded private equity house, is going to buy 65% of Skype from eBay for $1.9 billion in cash plus a $125 million note in a deal that values the VoIP software operation at $2.75 billion, a tad more than the $2.6 billion eBay paid for ...
Richard Egan, 73, the retired billionaire co-founder of EMC, a former US ambassador to Ireland and an ex-Marine Corps helicopter pilot, committed suicide last Friday after being diagnosed with fatal lung cancer in May. He was also struggling with emphysema, diabetes and high blood pres...
In its latest pursuit of SMBs VMware has cut a deal for Intel to sell vSphere 4 with its board and Xeon 5500 system products to resellers and system integrators that service small and mid-sized businesses starting in Q4. This relationship apparently expands on the Intel Enabled Server ...
Sun tiptoed out its June results. No press release and certainly no conference call, only a SEC filing and a posting on its web site last Friday, covering what will probably be its last quarter as an independent company before it collapses into Oracle’s waiting arms – that is unless th...
Queplix Corporation, a start-up that just got a $1.5 million A round from Javelin Venture Partners, has rolled out its QueCloud platform, meant to goose legacy enterprise applications into moving quickly to private and public cloud infrastructures.
Besides tickling legacy migration...
Pentaho Corporation is upgrading its commercial open source business intelligence alternative with a completely new report authoring environment along with technical and packaging changes so OEMs and SaaS providers can embed the widgetry into third-party applications.
It says the r...
Citrix is supposed to trot out a new 3D addition to its HDX Technology for high-definition virtual desktops today.
HDX 3D is supposed to let the company’s XenDesktop deliver high-end professional graphics in real-time over any network.
While switching from PC to Mac is on the rise, Parallels has dreamed up a way to simplify the transition. Its $99.99 Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition combines a set of tools and a two-hour interactive tutorial with its Desktop 4.0 for Mac to help switchers understand how to oper...
Salesforce.com has poached Cisco mandarin Doug Dennerline, the head of Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group, the repository of its WebEx widgetry and its cloud and SaaS ambitions – like the idea of taking on Microsoft’s $60 billion Office franchise with some Google Apps-like mojo that ...
Asustek, the inventor of netbooks, has shelved its expected Qualcomm Snapdragon-run Android-based model Eee that was showed off at Computec in June. CEO Jerry Shen told an investors conference in Taiwan the other day that “I still don’t see a clear market for smartbooks.” Asustek is al...
Since he returned to work in June from his liver transplant, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been micromanaging the development and positioning of a new widely rumored tablet device and apparently driving his staff nuts, according to the Wall Street Journal, whose reporter got Jobs to e-mail ...
To most who practice it, technology is a religion. So it will come as no surprise that one amongst us now claims to have discovered the “true Cloud,” the Cloud beyond simple development, the Cloud that brings us to the nirvana of serious application deployment and production via the cl...
Rackspace Cloud has launched an online service called Cloud Tools for sharing tools, applications and services built by its strategic partners and independent developers. The company says it shows it’s committed to an open cloud and to supporting the cloud ecosystem. Its new site aims ...
Novell, which contrary to public opinion took a serious hit the other day when a federal appeals court threw its ownership of Unix – and its ability to silence SCO – back to a jury to decide, earned five cents a share or $16.7 million on revenues down 12% to $216.1 million in the July ...
Atlassian, the Aussie ISV, has released Bamboo 2.3, the latest take on its cloud-supporting continuous integration (CI) server. Bamboo automatically builds and tests code changes as they’re committed so bugs don’t pile up. Bamboo 2.3 improves the widgetry’s support for running “elastic...
Apple said its Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 upgrade would go on sale Friday, August 28, at its retail stores and authorized resellers, a tad earlier than expected and two months before Windows 7 is supposed to be generally available. Apple’s online store started accepting pre-orders Mond...
Intel has acquired a little five-year-old Canadian number called RapidMind that specializes in parallel programming for multi-core processors and accelerators. It was originally founded to commercialize a programming system called Sh and now has a C++ development platform to create sin...
On September 23 the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is going to hear Microsoft’s expedited appeal for a stay of the Texas decision ordering Word and Office off the U.S. market by October 10 because they allegedly infringe an i4i patent. Microsoft got the date the day after it ...
