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Oracle, VMware Deals Show SDN, Virtual Networks Are Key to Cloud

Oracle and VMware over the last week have hammered home what many in the industry have been saying for a few years: You can€™t...

The Economy

The Economy Every tech company is going to feel the sluggish global economy. That said, given its size, the breadth of its product portfolio, and...

STORServer Adds VM Backup, Moves to Capacity-Based Licensing

Midmarket storage software maker STORServer said July 25 that it is now providing licenses to back up VMware virtual environment data alongside standard data...

Pro No. 1: Flexibility

Pro No. 1: Flexibility By definition, open-source clouds offer a higher degree of flexibility than their proprietary rivals. Rather than simply reading manuals or attending...

Juniper, Riverbed Partnership Puts Pressure on Cisco

Juniper Networks and Riverbed Technology are expanding their capabilities in WAN optimization and mobility in a partnership that promises to add to what is...

What VMware’s Nicira Buy Signals to Enterprise IT

VMware is the server virtualization software king of the world and has been for several years. Could this young company--still a teenager, by the...

EMC Goes Double-Digits in Revenue, Profit for 10th Straight Quarter

For the 10th consecutive quarter, data storage and security provider EMC reported double-digit year-over-year growth for revenue and net income in its second-quarter 2012...

VMware Reports 13 Percent Decline in Q2 Profits Due to Economic Fears

Virtualization market leader VMware reported its second quarter 2012 results July 23 with no indication what impact Microsoft's Hyper-V is having on VMware sales,...

VMware Pays $1.26 Billion for Networking Software Maker Nicira

VMware is taking a detour from its standard virtualization and mobile network discussions lately and adding a buzz term that Cisco Systems has been...

ARM, TSMC Deal Aims to Put More Pressure on Intel in Servers, Mobile

ARM took a key step in its growing competition with Intel by teaming up with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to create low-power chips for mobile...