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VMware CTO Highlights vSphere 5 Advantages
LAS VEGAS — VMware CTO Steve Herrod used his keynote address at VMworld to focus on the newly released flagship vSphere 5 while also showing technologies that leverage VMware s leadership position in data center and desktop virtualization. ” The most exciting thing I have to announce is the largest VM to date,” Herrod told…
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VMware Unveils Database as a Service Offering
VMware has announced vFabric Data Director, a new platform to deliver a Database as a Service solution for the enterprise. Announced at the company s VMworld 2011 conference, vFabric Data Director presents a new database provisioning and operations solution designed to deliver a Database as a Service (DaaS) model for the enterprise. VMware s vFabric…
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Businesses Gain Agility, Cut Costs with Server Virtualization: Report
Small businesses are moving steadily toward more virtualized computing infrastructures, with server virtualization – running multiple, independent, virtual operating systems on a single server – increasing the productivity, agility and scalability of computing resources and the business itself, with an attending boost in a company’s return on its information technology (IT) investments, according to a…
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VMworld Vendors Hawk Cloud Offerings, Services
With cloud being the hot topic on everybody’s mind, it’s no surprise that the major trends and news coming out of VMworld in Las Vegas this week have to do with what VMware has been calling the “journey to the cloud.” Even the Solutions Exchange exhibitor area is filled with IT vendors and channel partners…
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EMC Virtual Storage Integrator Supports VMware vCenter
EMC, a provider of information infrastructure in VMware virtual and cloud environments, introduced the next generation of Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) 5.0, a free VMware vCenter plug-in designed to enable IT organizations to run their data center operations more simply and efficiently, and to accelerate the move to cloud computing. With this version of VSI,…
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F5 Simplifies Long Distance Live Migrations
Following through on the virtualization strategy it announced two years ago at 2009’s VMworld, F5 Networks is launching new products that enable faster long-distance live migration between data centers and enhanced desktop virtualization. In collaboration with VMware and EMC, F5 is introducing the third version of its BIG-IP technology to accelerate and simplify the migration…