VMware focuses on end-user computing on VMworld 2011 day two

On day two of VMworld 2011 during the technical keynote with CTO Steve Herrod, VMware focused...
Maritz avoids vSphere 5 licensing talk

VMware CEO Paul Maritz mentioned "canonical applications" and "cloud" dozens of times each during his VMworld keynote this afternoon. But there was one word buzzword he didn't mention at all: licensing. VMware ticked off a lot of its loyal customers last month with its new vSphere 5 licensing...
Veeam scales out with Backup and Replication 6

Hyper-V support was the headline when Veeam previewed its Backup and Replication 6 product at Microsoft TechEd. But with the new release, which will begin shipping in the...
Catbird not buying vShield App, vendors say

Catbird Networks and VMware will announce plans next week to deliver VMware vShield controls into Catbird vSecurity. Catbird disclosed the OEM plans this afternoon in response to a report...
RHEV 3.0 beta supports up to 2 TB of RAM per VM

Red Hat is emphasizing KVM’s scale-up capabilities with today’s beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0.
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VCP, VCDX losing value, survey says

VMware certifications may still look good on your resume, but the value of some has plummeted. The value of the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) has decreased 12.5% in the past six months, and the...
Killers to play VMworld 2011 party

The Killers will headline the VMworld 2011 party. Today's announcement of The Killers as the VMworld 2011 party band makes up for several years of lackluster...
Standing out in the market: How startups can fit in

As virtualization and cloud vendors make more acquisitions (see: Citrix buying Cloud.com) and dive deeper into IT infrastructure (see: vSphere 5), are the small guys getting squeezed...
Netflix streaming, VMware licensing and the end of the world as we know it

At its core, virtualization is the abstraction of data from the...
How VMware can fix the vSphere 5 licensing mess

VMware really could have approached vSphere 5 licensing differently to make it less painful for existing customers. It's understood and accepted that VMware licensing...