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August 18, 2010  4:05 PM

Dell, 3PAR, and VMware’s tangled partnership web



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Dell, EMC, Virtualization management, VMware

Dell made waves this week with its announcement that it will acquire 3PAR, makers of high-end virtualized disk arrays. Waves in the storage industry, anyway -- though I found myself wondering what...

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August 17, 2010  6:19 PM

Citrix joins VMware partner program



Posted by: Colin Steele
Citrix, Colin Steele, Microsoft, VMware, VMworld 2010

Just when you thought virtualization vendor relationships couldn't get any more complicated, Citrix has signed up as a VMware technology alliance partner. Is this the...

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August 17, 2010  6:18 PM

Some refreshing honesty on vendor relationships



Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele, Symantec, VMware

As you know, vendor relationships in the virtualization market are extremely complicated. (See: Oracle, Dell and Hewlett-Packard;

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August 9, 2010  3:55 PM

VMworld 2010 band: INXS



Posted by: Colin Steele
Colin Steele, VMworld 2010

VMware has once again dug into the vaults for its VMworld band. This year's headliners will be '80s rockers INXS. I had some fun with VMware last year after the company tagged

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August 2, 2010  5:46 PM

Virtualization Vendor Profile: Stratus Technologies



Posted by: Colin Steele
Citrix XenServer, Colin Steele, hardware

Welcome to the latest edition of the Virtualization Vendor Profile. Every once in a while I’ll talk with a smaller or lesser-known company, learn about their business, discuss some industry trends, and write up a recap. At the beginning of my recent phone call with

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