VMWare CEO Pleased With Microsoft Publicity

Myself and Rob Kerr, Mobile Editor of ITProPortal.com, will be in Barcelona from the 25th of February to cover the Mobile World Congress event which will take place from the 27th to the 1st of March.  You can follow...

Virtualisation pioneer Citrix has announced that it is making a major push into what it calls 'the cloud era' with the purchase of Cloud.com for an undisclosed sum thought to be around the $200 million mark.Announced today, the...

Several leading computing companies have joined hands to  form the Open Virtualization Alliance to fuel development and adoption of open source virtualisation technology.The Open Virtualization Alliance has been formed by...

Top Red Hat executives have sounded a fierce battle-cry against Microsoft and VMware in the virtualisation and cloud computing market.According to a report on The Register, the company’s chairman, General Hugh Shelton, who...

Virtualisation services provider VMware has announced the acquisition of SlideRocket, which offers an online presentation maker.SlideRocket’s cloud based application allows its 20,000 customers and 300,000 users to create...

Rise in demand for cloud computing services has helped IT firms to post satisfactory financial report cards, indicating that the economy is indeed bouncing back on increased IT spending.According to a report on Bloomberg, Intel...

New research from IP EXPO 2010 reveals that virtualisation and data security are the IT industry’s top priorities for 2010/2011•    Respondents see virtualisation as key priority but call for higher...

Software giant Microsoft has urged customers to try out its Azure cloud computing platform before getting into a three-year contract with rival VMware. In an open letter addressed to the public, published in USA Today, Microsoft...

Goldman Sachs has rolled out its outlook report on the IT sector for the year 2010 which predicts that PC and servers will witness a major upgrade cycle. It is likely that cloud computing will continue to be widely used and the...

Some IT industry observers confuse application virtualisation with server virtualisation - Steve Gold explains what the technology is and why it so highly advantageous to tap the advantages that it adds to the benefits of...

After about 3 years of coding and development (a lot of which was, by all accounts, carried out by XenSource before the acquisition by Citrix), Microsoft has finally released Hyper-V, their long-awaited hypervisor and management...