All Posts Tagged With: "IBM"

IBM Unveils Research Initiative PHANTOM, Aims To Protect Virtual Servers Better

IBM recently announced a breakthrough in safeguarding virtual server environments and introduced new software to help businesses better manage risk. The company said the advances can provide businesses with substantial improvements in securing information, applications, and IT infrastructures around the globe.

10Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

IBM / Cisco Eyeing Acquisition of Citrix?

Nasdaq traders bid up Citrix stock Tuesday on takeover rumors that have either IBM or Cisco purchasing the application delivery vendor. Citrix’s stock went from a low of $30.60 Tuesday to a high of $33.75. Rumors of Citrix being purchased fueled the higher trading prices, says Jeffrey Gaggin, an enterprise software analyst for Avian Securities.

9Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

HP’s Ann Livermore On Virtualization

In an interesting interview with ZDNet UK, HP’s Ann Livermore, who heads the company’s Technology Solutions Group, talks about the difference between HP and IBM and touches upon virtualization.

1Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Dell Reportedly Plans To Give Away VMware ESX Server 3i For Free, World Keeps Turning

According to The Inquirer, it appears Dell is considering to stop charging VMware ESX Server 3i licensing fees on its PowerEdge servers to its customers. This was reportedly said by VMWare’s Senior Product Marketing Manager Martin Niemer and comes two weeks after the virtualization vendor announced it would start embedding the 32 MB hypervisor across Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP and IBM servers.

15Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 4 comments | Continued

Looking Back At A Decade of Open Source Virtualization

A deep dive into the history of open source virtualization, its key players and forgotten protagonists from the early days.

10Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued

Preinstalled Hypervisors And The Future of Operating Systems

Jay Lyman from the 451 Group wonders about the future of the Linux Distributions in the Virtualization arena.

5Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

VMWare To Embed VMware ESX 3i Hypervisor Across Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP and IBM Servers

Today at VMWorld Europe 2008, VMware announced agreements to embed the VMware ESX 3i hypervisor in servers from Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP and IBM.

27Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | Continued

Gartner: Server Market Doing Fine Until Further Notice

A new report from Gartner shows the server market did great during all of 2007, including the fourth quarter. Server shipments rose 11 % during the fourth quarter, while revenue rose almost 3 %. The world’s server vendors combined to ship 2.4 million boxes during the fourth quarter and brought in $ 15.5 billion for their efforts. In all of 2007, shipments rose 7 %, while revenue jumped 4 %.

22Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued

IBM Takes Virtual Servers Into Virtual Worlds

IBM has long been fascinated with the potential of 3-D virtual worlds and has now taken the next step and created actual 3-D virtual worlds that enterprise companies can use to manage their existing data centers or design new ones, as announced today by the company.

21Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

IBM announces virtualization management tool

Virtualization Manager
Stephen Shankland at
CNET  reported on IBM announcing a new management software to govern many types of virtual machines. IBM’s
Virtualization Manager is a dashboard that lets administrators take actions such as allocating computing resources to virtual machines. The software can control IBM’s own System p and System i servers as well as x86 servers running VMware, Xen [...]

3Nov2006 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
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