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Labs Gallery: Putting VMware vSphere 4 Host Profiles to the Test

Labs Gallery: Putting VMware vSphere 4 Host Profiles to the Test by Cameron Sturdevant Host Profiles In VMware vSphere 4, a host profile captures the configuration of...

Emerging Markets a Key for IT Hardware Vendors: Gartner

Emerging markets hold a lot of promise for IT hardware vendors, according to research firm Gartner.In a report issued July 22, Gartner analysts said...

Sun, Fujitsu Launch Enhanced UltraSPARC Systems into Roiling Unix Market

Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu are rolling out enhanced UltraSPARC-based servers into a Unix market that could see continued shifting over the coming months.Officials with...

IBM Preps for Power7 Processor Release

IBM is readying servers that will ship with the upcoming Power7 processor, which officials say will offer two to three times the performance of...

VMware vSphere 4 Host Profiles Feature Eases Configuration, Compliance Chores

New in VMware vSphere 4 is the ability to streamline the configuration of new ESX hosts. As part of my ongoing testing of the...

Microsoft Releases 20,000 Lines of Linux Code

Microsoft has released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community.The software giant announced its move at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention...

EMC Wastes No Time Taking Over Data Domain

EMC hasn't wasted any time in taking control of its latest acquisition, storage deduplication provider Data Domain.The world's largest provider of storage-related software and...

Labs Gallery: Citrix XenServer 5.5 Makes Advances in No-Cost Server Virtualization Space

Labs Gallery: Citrix XenServer 5.5 Makes Advances in No-Cost Server Virtualization Space by Cameron Sturdevant Add a New Server XenCenter is the Windows-based management interface for Citrix...

Quantum Seeing ‘New Opportunities’ After EMC’s Data Domain Buy

The news July 20 that EMC had taken over 82 percent of Data Domain's outstanding stock shares only eight days after outbidding NetApp has...

Riverbed Virtualizes Steelhead Mobile Capabilities

Riverbed Technology is looking to make enterprise-grade mobile WAN optimization capabilities available to SMBs through the use of virtualization and more attractive pricing.Riverbed officials...