The virtualization pioneer VMware announced plans to to launch a line of new products in 20o9 in an effort to fight slowdown of IT spending. the company that reported growth in 4th quarter of 2008 of 25% also said that its expectations for the first-quarter on 2009 are much weaker. VMware is planning major upgrades around server virtualization and cloud computing. The company is about to launch a “major update” of server virtualization products. It will be also unveiling new management and automation products, enhancements to its desktop virtualization offerings, as well as a significant...

The VMware’s CTO Steve Herrod said in Q&A with SYS-CON’s Jeremy Geelan that “it is absolutely clear that virtualization is here to stay”. “In the future, we’ll look back at the non-virtualized compute models as we look back on the phonograph or on bulky CRTs. I believe we’re far from realizing the full benefits that virtualization can bring to datacenters, desktops, laptops, and mobile phones”, told Herrod SYS-Con’s journalist. “We have 3 major initiatives at VMware”, says Steve Herrod and particularizes: Virtual Datacenter...

Cirrus Tech, a Canadian hosting provider announced the availability of openSUSE 10.3 OS on its Linux VPS plans. The company also offers VPS with Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, and Fedora Core. OpenSUSE 10.3 is the latest stable release of 10.x series released from OpenSUSE Project. Cirrus Tech offers both Linux and Windows VPS Hosting services. The web host offers Plesk control panel with some openSUSE VPS hosting plans.