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utility computing and virtualization

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VMware: The World's Busiest PR Team?
A couple of weeks ago, Forbes wrote that VMware had become the world's fifth highest-valued software company (behind only Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Adobe).  Pretty incredible for a technology category ("virtualization") whose basic concept / definition ("abstracting the OS and software from the underlying hardware") ... is far beyond the...
Tags: IPO, Utility computing, Storage management, Travis Van, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Public Relations, PR team
Blog posts 2007-09-12
SAVVIS Features Virtualization, Utility Computing, and Financial Applications At Securities Industry Association -SIA- 2004
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
Tags: financial, financial application, Securities Industry Association, Semiconductor Industry Association, utility computing, virtualization
Research articles 2004-06-08
Microsoft and Red Hat unite against VMware
Microsoft and Red Hat are providing technical support for each other’s operating systems in an attempt to see off virtualisation competitor VMware. The deal sees the two companies effectively guaranteeing that each other’s operating systems will run in their own virtualisation software. ...
Tags: Red Hat Inc., Operating System, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualisation Software Revenue, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Jasper Jackson, Novell Inc.
Articles 2009-02-23
IBM buys virtualisation firm, Transitive
IBM is buying virtualisation specialist Transitive for an undisclosed sum. Transitive develops cross-platform virtualisation technology and holds 48 global patents. The firm's technology is designed to allow applications to run on multiple operating systems and microprocessors with minimal modification. The...
Tags: IBM Corp., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Francesco Canepa, Accel Partners, Crescendo Venture Management, LLP., IBM, Meritech Capital Partners, Pond Venture Partners
Articles 2008-11-19
SMART F4Q07 (Qtr End 8/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Thomas Dinges of JPMorgan. Thomas J. Dinges - JPMorgan Good afternoon, guys. I wanted to ask you a quick one. Iain, you brought the topic up about virtualization and an increase in server density. You talked...
Tags: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Call Transcript, Quarter, Earnings, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Taxes, Pricing, Memory, Hardware, Storage, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing, Semiconductors, Components, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2007-10-03
CA/Microsoft Hyper-V Protection White Paper Adopting Server Virtualization
Server virtualization technology helps significantly reduce overall IT capital expense and operational costs. Hyper-V virtualization technology, a feature of the Windows Server 2008 operating system, is an enterprise-class virtualization solution that can be quickly deployed in any business environment. By using Hyper-V with BC/DR solutions from CA such as CA...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Computer Associates International Inc., Server Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Roi/Tco, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Data Management, Storage
White papers 2009-05-01
Top 7 Things You Should Know About Activation and Genuine Windows
As an IT Pro, you should be aware that volume activation is a required part of your Windows 7 deployment. This document provides you with the top 7 things to know about volume activation, touching on the basics, product keys, experience, deployment, value, virtualization and resources.
Tags: Activation, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2009-11-01
Red Hat, Inc. F4Q09 (Qtr End 02/28/09) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionTom McCallum For today's question-and-answer period we will be asking everyone to limit themselves to one question and a follow up question, please. We have a lot in the queue. Thank you. Operator, you can go ahead and poll the audience for questions. Operator Your first question is...
Tags: Associated Press, Red Hat Inc., Call Transcript, Earnings, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-03-25
Live Webcast: Scale Up and Save: Best Practices for High-Density Virtualization & Consolidation
Fast-paced and resource-constrained environments of today require IT decision makers to take fresh approaches in order to keep up with dynamic organizations. Join NEC and Intel in this live TechRepublic Webcast to understand market drivers for high density virtualization hosting. Discuss how leading edge...
Tags: Webcast, Consolidation, Best Practice, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
Webcasts 2009-09-01
SAVVIS Announces New Profile From THINKstrategies, Inc.; In the Profile Published Today, THINKstrategies Evaluates SAVVIS Technology and Services and Comments on the Evolution of Virtualization and Utility Computing
ST. LOUIS -- SAVVIS, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVS), a leading global IT utility services provider, today announced that THINKstrategies, an independent consulting firm, has published a profile, authored by Jeff Kaplan, the firm's managing director, which examines SAVVIS' IT utility computing strategy and services. The profile follows an exclusive briefing of THINKstrategies...
Tags: utility computing, virtualization
Research articles 2005-11-01
Virtualise Your Desktop | BTalk Australia
(Episode 301; 9 minutes 22) Virtualisation is a technology being used by most large companies, but the focus has been on server virtualisation. Now, it seems, the adoption of virtualisation has slowed as companies are left with servers that are harder to virtualise. Desktop virtualisation provides a new opportunity. ...
Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Desktop Virtualisation, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Phil Dobbie
Blog posts 2009-08-04
Microsoft Beating VMware 'Every Single Day'
Microsoft doesn't miss an opportunity to poor-mouth the economy these days, and I'm beginning to think that this posture isn't a way of making excuses for lackluster performance, but actually a way of driving business. Today Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft's key server and tools division, and...
Tags: Server, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Michael Hickins
Blog posts 2009-06-03
Oracle Protecting Its Stack With Virtual Iron Deal
Oracle's acquisition of Virtual Iron, announced yesterday, raised a lot of eyebrows. Why the heck does a company that already has open source hypervisor technology of its own and is acquiring even more virtualization technology from Sun, need yet more virtualization technology in its portfolio? One issue the acquisition cleared...
Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., VMware Inc., Virtual Iron, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Michael Hickins
Blog posts 2009-05-14
Infrastructure Vendors Vying For Stack Supremacy
Cisco's decision to create a monolithic environment, and to sell servers in competition with HP, IBM and other erstwhile partners, was just the first salvo in a battle for domination of enterprise data centers. IBM's aborted attempt to acquire Sun was the next logical retort, and as my colleague Erik...
Tags: Data Center, Server, Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Virtualization Technology, Nehalem, Virtualization, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Michael Hickins
Blog posts 2009-04-08
Cisco UCS Looks A Lot Like Vendor Lock-Out
Cisco's Unified Computing System UCS, introduced today, looks like an attempt to lock up the data center in much the same way that Microsoft tried to establish hegemony over the software stack. UCS promises to unite computing, networking, storage, and virtualization resources in...
Tags: Virtualization, Blade, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco UCS, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Michael Hickins
Blog posts 2009-03-16
EMC, VMware Share Data Center Dreams
From the looks of things, rumors that EMC was considering a sale of its 84% stake in server virtualization market leader VMware were wrong. If the companies' leaders are to be believed--and there's no reason to doubt them at this point--they see the fates of their companies...
Tags: Data Center, VMware Inc., EMC Corp., Virtualization, Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Storage, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Michael Hickins
Blog posts 2009-03-11
Citrix Makes the iPhone More of a Business Tool
Business-critical applications continue their push into the mobile world and, increasingly, that world includes the iPhone - giving the popular device more respect as a business tool, instead of just a toy, and giving IT administrators one less reason to insist on the Blackberry as a preferred handset. ...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Citrix Systems Inc., Tool, Sam Diaz, Virtualization, Web Conferencing, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Internet, Marketing, Storage
Blog posts 2008-11-12
IBM Acquisition Further Limits IT User Virtualization Choices
Dennis Byron submits: Back in June, I introduced you to Transitive via this interview with Transitive’s Vice President of Marketing Ian Robinson. The excitement for me was the cross-virtualization platform provider’s expanding distribution channel, in light of a trend to decreasing virtualization-software distribution options via Citrix’s CTRX...
Tags: Acquisition, Information Technology, Nail, Coffin, IBM Corp., Seeking Alpha, Dennis Byron, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Investment, Finance, Management, Software
External links 2008-11-20
Telecom Roundup: AT&T into Video, VMWare Goes Mobile, More
AT&T starts video aggregation site; VMWare creates virtualization products for enterprise market mobile phones; Virgin Mobile numbers beat market expectations; and FCC tries workaround for digital TV broadcast signals that fall short and lose viewers. by Erik Sherman
Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Aggregation Site, AT&T Corp., Cloud Computing, Corporate Communications, Erik Sherman, Hardware, Marketing, Mobile, Phone, Storage, Storage Management, Telecommunications, Utility Computing, Video, Virtualization, VMware Inc.
Blog posts 2008-11-12
Accelerate Enterprise Virtualization With Accenture Services Using VMware
The scope of virtualization has expanded well beyond servers to include operating systems, applications, desktops, networks and storage. Achieving enhanced results across large and complex organizations, however, requires a clear strategy backed with the ability to execute, control risks and achieve lasting change. The benefits of virtualizing the IT infrastructure...
Tags: Accenture Ltd., VMware Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Roi/Tco, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Storage
White papers 2008-05-08
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