Thursday - September 25, 2008
Oracle announced at its OpenWorld event this week two new partnerships intended to boost the firm's cloud computing offerings. The enterprise software maker announced Monday that it has teamed with Amazon to offer enterprise customers options available via the mega-e-tailer's Elastic Compute Cloud service. Oracle followed up that news Tuesday with the revelation that it has also joined with Intel on a collaboration the two companies said will help accelerate enterprise readiness of cloud computing, making it more efficient and secure.
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Thursday - September 18, 2008
Cisco and VMware announced Wednesday a collaboration that will bring businesses greater scalability and operational control of virtual environments in their data centers. The initial fruit of the two companies' combined efforts will be the integration of the Cisco Nexus 1000V distributed virtual software switch into the VMware infrastructure.
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Tuesday - September 16, 2008
Intel launched its latest series of chips in the Xeon branded line of server processors Monday. The Xeon Processor 7400 series includes seven 45 nanometer chips sporting up to six processing cores per chip and 16 MB of shared cache memory. The new six-core Xeons, aimed at mid-sized to large businesses, are optimized to run applications built for virtualized environments.
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Tuesday - September 16, 2008
Citrix rolled out the fifth edition of its XenServer virtualization software Monday. The platform features more than 130 new features focused on ease of use, performance and security. Among the improvements to this latest iteration of XenServer are storage virtualization and integration with Windows Server 2008 from Microsoft.
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Monday - September 15, 2008
VMware is working to move past its internal shakeups with the revelation of a new operating system for virtual server and storage management. The Virtual Datacenter Operating System, announced Monday at the start of the company's VMworld annual conference in Las Vegas, will offer an all-around solution to bring multiple resources onto a single cloud and make resource sharing significantly easier for customers.
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Monday - September 15, 2008
GlassHouse Technologies announced on Monday the release of Managed Services for Virtual Environments, a first-of-its-kind suite of managed services. The company broke the news at the VMworld 2008 Solution Exchange in Las Vegas. GlassHouse, an independent IT infrastructure consulting and services firm, launched its advanced management interface in conjunction with virtualization management software from Tek-Tools Software.
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Thursday - September 11, 2008
With shipments of Apple computers on the rise -- to the tune of 38 percent year-on-year, according to Gartner -- software vendors appear ready to accommodate the shift in the marketplace. It may be hip to go Apple, but companies need software that's compatible with Mac computer systems, and the software industry is finally responding to the call.
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Monday - September 8, 2008
With a host of software and manufacturing partners in tow, Microsoft held its "Get Virtual Now" launch event Monday. It was the official coming-out party for the much talked-about Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology, and also served as the occasion for announcing the upcoming availability of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008.
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Friday - September 5, 2008
Software developer Red Hat bought an Israeli company in a bid to gain a competitive edge against Microsoft and smaller rivals that provide computing services for complex networks. Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat said Thursday that it paid $107 million in cash for privately held Qumranet, which sells software that helps computer systems run multiple programs more efficiently on less equipment.
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Thursday - September 4, 2008
HP announced a slew of new products on Wednesday designed to make the deployment of a virtualized solution a greater value for businesses. HP's virtualization push focuses on getting rid of the impediments that reduce a virtual deployment's positive effect on a business.
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