Shavlik Technologies, a provider of security and management software for desktops and servers, will be acquired by virtualization and cloud provider VMware, the companies announced on Monday morning.
Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) experienced multiple outages this week, the company admitted on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/13/2011
Google on Wednesday announced "Chromebooks," the upcoming line of notebook computers that will run the company's Chrome operating system.
Six CTOs tell us what they think is keeping virtualization and cloud computing from proliferating, and offer solutions to get past those barriers.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced it has agreed to acquire Skype for $8.5 billion, making it the largest acquisition in Microsoft's history.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/10/2011
The emerging class of performance management solutions for high-performance virtualization.
- By Dave Bartoletti
- 05/06/2011
According to a recent survey by the Ponemon Institute, security is not a top priority for most cloud computing vendors and customers.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- 05/06/2011
Red Hat has bolstered its cloud offerings with the release of a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering for developers and new software to enable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/04/2011
Your vSphere infrastructure needs monitoring, and that's where vCenter Operations comes in. Let's take a look at how to work with it.
VMware's fledgling Cloud Foundry service experienced two brief outages last week, though the outages pale in comparison to Amazon Web Services' four-day outage that concluded early last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/03/2011
Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Platform at Microsoft, will move to Microsoft's Windows Azure group as part of a May reorg.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/02/2011
Depleted resources, storage provisioning, virtual machine sprawl and excessive virtual hard disk files are some of the key challenges facing storage virtualization users.
I tried Xangati for ESX to find out why the tool was different from other virtual infrastructure performance-monitoring solutions. Here's what I found out.
Citrix has built a global company that wants to "play well with others" and has struck up some key partnerships in the process.
Veeam's latest streamlines processes and shines in vSphere environments.
What some folks (folks being Chris Wolf, Simon Bramfitt, Greg Stuart and Citrix's own Simon Crosby and Mark Templeton ) have to say about Citrix.
Deploying and configuring the Kaviza package is a breeze.
As a virtualization administrator, do you feel awkward building a physical server? 5 tips for making it less so.
- By Elias Khnaser
- 05/01/2011
Which is more perilous: fleeing the Soviet Union before the fall of communism or starting up a cloud-computing business with no venture funding? Igor Papirov has survived both.
Salesforce.com's Director of Platform Research offers his thoughts on his company running with the SaaS tag, as well as how virtualization and cloud computing are impacting business.