Scott Ferguson

LAS VEGAS-VMware and Cisco Systems are deepening their relationship when it comes to virtualization with an announcement that the two companies have co-developed a software switch that looks to ease the management and networking of virtual machines within a data center. At the 2008 VMworld conference here, Cisco and VMware announced the new virtual software […]

LAS VEGAS-While the balance of the VMworld conference has focused on the data center and building the cloud computing infrastructure of tomorrow, VMware is also looking to solve what CEO Paul Maritz calls the “desktop dilemma.” The idea of creating a better and more enhanced version of a virtual desktop infrastructure, or VDI, is high […]

LAS VEGAS-New VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz gave his first detailed public remarks at the start of the VMworld conference Sept. 16, and his keynote and opening comments ranged from how virtualization will enhance the emerging cloud computing infrastructure to the challenges VMware faces from Microsoft. In his opening keynote, Maritz described VMware’s vision […]

Lenovo, which has been expanding its line of notebooks and desktops since the beginning of the year, will now try to carve out a piece of the x86 server market for itself with a line of systems called ThinkServer. At the 2008 Interop conference in New York, which starts Sept. 16, Lenovo will preview five […]

VMware is looking to bring its x86 virtualization technology deeper into the data center by providing a host of new tools and services that will allow enterprises to build their own cloud computing infrastructure or allow third-party providers to host applications for their own customers. This new emphasis on cloud or grid computing is part […]

Intel is rounding out its line of 45-nanometer “Penryn” microprocessors with the official release of its Xeon 7400 series processors-formerly code-named Dunnington-for multiprocessor server systems on Sept. 15. At an event Monday, Intel unveiled seven different Xeon 7400 series processors that will have a combination of either six or four processing cores. These chips range […]

NEC is joining a contingent of other semiconductor companies that IBM has assembled that are developing new methods of manufacturing processors at 32-nanometers. On Sept. 11, NEC announced that it would join IBM and six other semiconductor companies to develop these 32-nm chips. The other partners in the alliance include Charted Semiconductor, Freescale, Infineon Technologies, […]

In the summer of 2007, VMware, with a successful IPO under way and hardly any serious competition in the market, began to look more and more like a critical darling of the IT industry and the company poised to dominate the x86 virtualization market for the foreseeable future. Now, in the autumn of 2008, those […]

VMware is promising customers that it will improve the way it installs and updates its vast array of virtualization products, following serious issues those same customers faced after the virtualization company released a faulty update for its ESX and ESXi products. In a Sept. 11 e-mail to customers, VMware CEO and President Paul Maritz further […]

Dell is rolling out an assortment of virtualization offerings, along with new server and storage systems, that the PC vendor believes will boost its ability to offer hardware, software and services for the virtualized data center. Dell is launching its new virtualization initiative Sept. 10, just a few days before the start of the 2008 […]

While the U.S. economy is continuing its year-long struggle, the worldwide PC market is still growing at a double-digit rate and is receiving a boost from the newfound interest in low-cost notebooks such as the Asus Eee PC. In a survey released Sept. 10, IDC found that worldwide PC shipments are expected to increase 15.7 […]

The changes within VMware’s top management continued as Mendel Rosenblum, the chief scientist and one of the co-founders of the virtualization company, announced he would leave VMware and return to academia full time. In a statement released Sept. 9, a VMware spokeswoman confirmed that Rosenblum, who created the company in 1998 with his wife and […]