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Citrix Debuts Beta Of All New XenServer

Citrix has just opened the beta program for the next version of XenServer, code-named Project George, which will be entirely free. Citrix says that the beta will be open until the end of this month.

13Apr2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

HP Announces Enhancements to its Business Service Automation Software Suite

HP today announced new enhancements to its Business Service Automation (BSA) software suite to help customers better manage and reduce operational costs associated with virtualized data centers.

10Apr2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

IDC: Virtual Server Management Software Revenues to Reach $2.3 Billion in 2013 Thanks To Large-Scale Deployments

The ramp up of large-scale virtual server implementations around the world will drive tremendous demand for a newly defined competitive market – virtual server management software – for distributed systems (principally Windows, Unix, and Linux platforms), according to new research from IDC.

10Apr2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Virtualization Security Startup HyTrust Launches With $5.5 Million In Series A Funding

HyTrust is entering the virtualization arena today with HyTrust Appliance, which serves as a central point of control, management and visibility for virtualized environments.

8Apr2009 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | Continued

IBM Walks Away From Talks Over Potential Sun Acquisition

IBM has withdrawn its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems today (Sunday), reports the NY Times, who confirmed the collapse of the talks based on a statement from an unnamed source while several other media, including the Wall Street Journal and ZDNet, were still speculating.

6Apr2009 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued

Intel Introduces New Family Of Xeon Processors

Intel Corporation introduced 17 processors today, led by the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series. They are Intel’s most revolutionary server processors since addressing the market with the Intel Pentium Pro processor almost 15 years ago.

30Mar2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Ex-Microsoft Exec Richard McAniff Appointed Chief Development Officer, Executive VP At VMware

VMware today announced that Richard McAniff has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer.

25Mar2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Skytap Taps $7 Million In Series B Financing

Skytap today announced it completed a $7 million Series B round of funding from Ignition Partners, Madrona Venture Group and Washington Research Foundation. The funds will be used to bolster the company’s product development, sales and marketing efforts.

18Mar2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Exclusive - Cisco’s Unified Computing Platform: The Details

Today Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will unveil its long-awaited server line, one of the building blocks that was still missing from their Unified Computing vision.

16Mar2009 | Toon Vanagt | 3 comments | Continued

Hyper9 Raises $8 Million Series B Round, Mike Maples Joins Its Board

Hyper9 has raised $8 million in a series B funding round led by Venrock, a highly respected venture capital firm. Joining Venrock were current investors Matrix Partners, Silverton Partners and Maples Investments.

2Mar2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

VMworld Europe Day 2 - Dr. Stephen Herrod Keynote liveblog

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Stay tuned for the liveblog of the keynote by Dr. Stephen Herrod, VMware CTO, live from VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes, France.
Stephen Herrod was one of the original developers of ESX predecessor
SimOS while at Stanford University (
His homepage from the time is still online.). He worked at
Transmeta, where he worked on their “code [...]

25Feb2009 | Lode Vermeiren | 0 comments | Continued

VMworld Europe Day 1 - Paul Maritz keynote unveils new vPrefix product naming convention and talks about upcoming VMware vSphere, Intel vPro partnership

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After “day 0″, partner day, VMworld Europe opened its doors for the general audience today.
vSphere is the official name of the new VMware platform, but the VMware marketing department has not applied their new naming convention vPrefix to all products & initiatives yet. Some VMware partners are already doing the same, such as Intel with [...]

24Feb2009 | Lode Vermeiren | 1 comment | Continued
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