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• VMware, Inc. Q3 2009 (Qtr End 9/30/09) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-10-21

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Heather Bellini - ISI Group. Heather Bellini - ISI Group I was wondering if you talk a little bit about the customer conversations you had this quarter and what's different about them in particular versus last...

  Tags: Call Transcript, VMware Inc., Earnings, ELA, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Seeking Alpha

• Microsoft Beating VMware 'Every Single Day'

  BNET - 2009-06-03

  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

• Oracle Protecting Its Stack With Virtual Iron Deal

  BNET - 2009-05-14

  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

• EMC, VMware Share Data Center Dreams

  BNET - 2009-03-11

  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

• Microsoft and Red Hat unite against VMware

  Strategy Eye - 2009-02-23

  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.

• Telecom Roundup: AT&T into Video, VMWare Goes Mobile, More

  BNET - 2008-11-12

  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.

• Accelerate Enterprise Virtualization With Accenture Services Using VMware

  BNET - 2008-05-08

  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

• VMware: The World's Busiest PR Team?

  - 2007-09-12

  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