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VMware ought to be feeling pretty good right about now.The Palo Alto, Calif.-based, EMC-owned virtualization software kingpin is sitting in the mid-90s percentile in all the right marketing reports, meaning that more than 90 percent of the world’s enterprise workloads running in virtual machines use VMware’s hypervisor and surrounding IT. Another key metric is that […]

VMware’s parent company, EMC, generally moves out of the spotlight during the VMworld conference each year, although it is always sure to make a statement or two. The statement this time is that the world’s largest data storage and protection company announced new support Aug. 30 for VMware View 5.0 for its VNX unified storage […]

Hewlett-Packard, still stinging from a lackluster quarterly report on Aug. 18 and answering questions about its long-term strategy, stuck to product news Aug. 30 at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas. It unveiled a new turnkey-type cloud-building package for midrange enterprises and branch offices of large enterprises. HP VirtualSystem suite of applications for VMware, which to […]

Imation, a consumer-oriented data storage device maker that has been expanding into the enterprise space in recent years, revealed Aug. 29 that it has bought several assets of now-defunct ProStor Systems-including its InfiniVault backup system for large data sets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Oakdale, Minn.-based company said it will retain 15 […]

With its design-it-yourself PCs in the 1980s and ’90s, Dell liberated personal computing in its own image. Later, it developed its own servers, resold and serviced storage hardware from EMC, and made it all economically attractive for its marketing sweet spots-midrange and small businesses-to purchase and deploy. Now, in 2011, the company Michael Dell built […]

Cisco Systems, continuing to look into markets outside the network infrastructure sector that it already leads, Aug. 29 announced that it is acquiring 2-year-old collaboration software maker Versly. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. San Francisco-based Versly’s speciality is that it brings Microsoft applications into social networking. It integrates employee and supply-chain collaboration within […]

When VMware CEO Paul Maritz took the stage Aug. 29 at the first general session of the VMworld 2011 conference, he reminded several thousand attendees packed inside the auditorium of what a famous IT newsmaker once said about progress in the digital data world. He then connected that well-known statement with the present.“Steve Jobs likes […]

Storage virtualization provider Tintri announced the completion of the second generation of its VMstore storage appliance on Aug. 29 at VMworld, where it also will demonstrate the device. Tintri positions VMstore as the first storage appliance designed exclusively for virtual machines, which allows enterprises to broaden their virtualized deployments at will. Its purpose-built file system […]

Wyse Technology, a longtime thin-client maker that also describes itself as a provider of “cloud client computing,” made several new-product announcements Aug. 29 at VMworld 2011, including new high-performing thin clients, Linux thin clients and mobile clients. The San Jose, Calif.-based company said it is now shipping its highest-performing thin clients, the Z90D7 and Z90DW. […]

As has been the case for the last half-dozen years, VMworld-the 2011 version of which opens Aug. 29 and continues through Sept. 1 at the Venetian and Wynn hotel convention centers in Las Vegas-is going to be about as newsy as any IT show in the world this year. Tickets for attendees are going for […]

Cisco Systems, slogging through a relatively tough time in its 20-year history, is putting its troubles aside and focusing on launching a flock of new products, mostly co-delivered with host VMware Aug. 30 at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas. The world’s largest networking company has endured layoffs, product cutbacks and major strategy changes during the […]