3PAR introduced the 3PAR InServ T400 and T800 Storage Servers, built on a third-generation 3PAR InSpire Architecture that features the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC with integrated fat-to-thin processing. With the delivery of the new T-Class arrays, 3PAR has become a storage vendor that incorporates ...

Devon IT announced certification for VMware Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM), VMware's next-generation connection broker, on Devon's Microsoft Windows XP Embedded SafeBoolLVO and 8050C. These thin clients are available today. VMware's VDM and allows customers deploying VMware Virtual Desk...

VMware announced that NEC has rolled out one of the world’s largest implementations of VMware virtual desktops, providing NEC with enterprise-class control, simplified management and secure provisioning of virtual desktops. NEC, a pioneer and innovator in electronics for over 100 years...

Chip PC announced it had certified its range of innovative thin client devices for VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Virtual Desktop Manager. VMware Virtual Desktop Manager allows customers deploying VMware VDI to deliver an enhanced user experience, simplify desktop mana...

AMD announced that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors exclusively power the innovation behind the blade server designed specifically to eliminate performance bottlenecks for virtual server hosting, the HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade.

Citrix Systems announced Citrix XenServer 5, the next generation of its server virtualization product line. XenServer 5 overcomes the limitations and complexity of first-generation solutions with new management capabilities and ease-of-use that make datacenters more dynamic for custome...

EMC announced broad participation in VMware vStorage, a set of technologies that provides storage vendors like EMC with interfaces and programs that enable its products to integrate and optimize their capabilities with the VMware platform. Having strong integration points across EMC's ...

Desktone announced a new program that helps enterprises evaluate the benefits of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) without building the environment themselves. The new Desktone Desktops as a Service (DaaS) Pilot will be available beginning October 1, 2008.

PERFMAN announced the availability of PERFMAN 7.2, the latest release of the company’s highly regarded cross-platform performance management and capacity planning software. New features in the latest release include Virtualization Planning Tool and VMware Sprawl Reporting, complementin...

Red Hat never did like Xen. It liked it even less after Citrix bought XenSource a year ago and Microsoft cuddled up with Citrix, Virtual Iron and Novell, Xen’s first Linux promoter. Among other things, it didn’t have control of the technology.

Are you being asked to do more with less, like trying to overcome legacy VPN deployment barriers while reducing costs? Is providing remote access for some users simply too expensive? Citrix requests attendance at an interactive Webinar to hear security analyst Lisa Phifer discuss how c...

Dell Thursday finally trotted out its widely anticipated nettop, giving it what HP and Asustek already have. Dell calls its 1.6GHz Atom-based widget the Inspiron Mini 9 and is selling the thing at www.dell.com in the US, Canada, Japan and some European countries starting at 399 with XP...

David Marshall in his InfoWorld 'Virtualization Report' blog writes: 'Despite a sharp slowdown in U.S. business software spending, an April 2008 survey report from ChangeWave Research shows that virtualization may be spared as virtualization software spending has increased.' Marshall c...

Sun Microsystems announced the availability of Sun xVM Server software and Sun xVM Ops Center 2.0, key components in its comprehensive virtualization strategy. Designed to operate at Internet scale, the Sun xVM virtualization portfolio is open, flexible and delivers robust offerings fo...

Microsoft is inviting its nearest and dearest – (and probably VMware’s nearest and dearest too) to a great one-day virtualization launch event on Monday September 8 in Bellevue, Washington. It’s the beginning of a six-month drumbeat.

"Go forth and multiply" has a new interpretation in the IT world: "Go forth and virtualize." It is no surprise that enterprises today are adopting virtualization technologies in droves, not only because of the cost reduction and efficiency it delivers, but for the flexibility the techn...

A time bomb reportedly left over from the beta of VMware’s two-week-old update to ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2) caused product licenses to expire yesterday. It also happened with a patch to ESX 3.5 or ESXi 3.5 Update 2.

AMD announced the availability of new virtualization solutions powered by a combination of technologies from AMD and Microsoft. This new deployment model uses AMD Opteron processors with AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) technology together with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to delive...

IGEL announced the availability of its latest Microsoft Windows CE firmware. The inclusion of the Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect client allows customers to choose from 10 hypervisors when delivering virtual PCs. The firmware upgrade also includes support for the Citrix XenDesktop Applianc...

Sychron announced support for Microsoft Hyper-V, a hypervisor-based technology that is a key feature of Windows Server 2008. Sychron's support means that customers using HyperV environments can now deliver and manage fast and cost-effective virtual desktops using Sychron's OnDemand Des...

Quest Software unveiled its Experience Optimization Pack (EOP) from the Provision Networks division. Quest EOP is an extension suite for Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol aimed to eliminate the adoption barriers of hosted desktop virtualization in all use case scenarios over both loc...

VMware announced physicists at CERN use VMware Fusion to share Linux-based computer code via VMware virtual machines running on Apple hardware. Virtual machines created with VMware Fusion are used by the physicists working on the experiments that run on the world’s largest particle...

CiRBA announced that CiRBA's Placement Intelligence Technology now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization platform. Using CiRBA, organizations can assess IT environments for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V deployment opportunities, design enterprise-class environment...

Xsigo announced the availability of an enhanced version of the company's VP780 I/O Director. The enhanced product, called the VP780 x2, is designed to set new performance and ease-of-use standards for data center customers using virtual I/O technologies.

Ericom announced that Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect now provides centrally managed access to virtual desktops running on Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, an OS-level server virtualization technology that partitions the underlying operating system into multiple isolated containers, so th...

Radiant Logic announced the Context Server. The RadiantOne Virtual Context Server (VCS) expands upon Radiant Logic’s identity virtualization platform. By extracting contextual information buried in application silos, RadiantOne VCS enables better integration of business processes.

Riverbed Technology announced an OEM agreement to embed VMware software as the preferred virtualization platform for the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP), a virtualized service delivery solution within Steelhead appliances. With the VMware platform inside Steelhead appliances, enterpri...

NetApp announced new storage solutions optimized for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, virtualization software that's a feature of most versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2008. The new NetApp storage solutions provide data center customers with server virtualization capabilities...

Virtual Iron and Promark announced a new distribution partnership. Promark will distribute Virtual Iron's software solutions to value-added resellers (VARs) in the commercial and government markets and give VARs access to its General Services Administration (GSA) contract. Unlike other...

HP announced new additions to its recently updated portfolio of servers, storage, software and services -- driving more business value into Microsoft virtualization environments. The unveilings offer: Immediate interoperability of Microsoft virtualization technologies with HP enterpris...

Because of its slow growth – a factor of the freebie open source business model – Red Hat has become fodder for Wall Street acquisition speculation, BusinessWeek says, and offers VMware as a possible suitor. Such an acquisition would give VMware the operating system it’s lacking, make ...

LeftHand Networks announced support for Microsoft's virtualization strategy and set of virtualization solutions. LeftHand Networks iSCSI SAN solutions provide high availability and non-disruptive storage management, capabilities that become vital as customers seek to optimize the effic...

Kazeon Systems announced the availability of VMware support for its Information Server product line. Version 3.1 of the software fully supports VMware instances and VMware images, and allows customers to discover unknown or hidden virtual instances on servers, laptops and desktops, thu...

RingCube announced vDesk, a high-performance enterprise desktop virtualization solution that delivers employees, contractors and customers anytime, anywhere access to a personalized desktop environment complete with applications, data and settings.

Intel, which has lost a shirt or two on flash memory in its time, has finally delivered those solid-state drives it promised a while back. OEM products using them should dutifully follow in the next few weeks. The widgets are targeted at laptops and desktops and are based on multi-leve...

VMware continues to gain momentum as customers opt for VMware’s virtualization and management suite, VMware Infrastructure 3, over the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. The Interior Health Authority (IHA) of British Columbia provides healthcare services to more than 750,000 people through ...

Splunk announced the availability of Splunk for VMWare Management which offers extended management capabilities for VMWare's Virtual Infrastructure. The application provides IT professionals in charge of managing complex virtual environments with the only approach that crosses the boun...

Intel Monday launched its first halogen-free Xeons and said all existing versions of the Xeon 5200 and 5400 series will now be halogen-free too. According to their creator, the four new quad-core chips “reach new heights in performance and energy efficiency” and that’s largely becau...

Certeon announced that its aCelera Virtual Appliance software for application acceleration will be shipping with support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V in its upcoming November 2008 release. This announcement is a continuation of a commitment Certeon made when it launched aC...

3PAR announced support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft's newest server operating system with built-in, hypervisor-based virtualization. 3PAR Utility Storage and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V work together to give IT organizations the ability to deliver software and h...