VMware On Top Of Virtualization For Another Year

VMware’s won two prestigeous awards with its Infrastructure 3. One of them came from InfoWorld’s. The magazine’s technology of the Year Award for the best server virtualization platform went to the VM producer for the 5th consecutive year. WMware has also been honoured as “Best Overall Cloud Product” and “Best Cloud Platform” at the SYS-CON Event’s – Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Show Awards. The delegates of the expo voted for the best cloud computing solution in 5 categories all having “Best” upfront: Overall Cloud Product,...

VMware Loosing Market Share To Microsoft’s Hyper-V

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...

WMware Focused On Virtual Datacenter OS, Desktop Products And Vcloud Initiative

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 OS...