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Microsoft Touts VMware Customer Switch to Hyper-V on Eve of VMworld
On the eve of VMware’s San Francisco love fest around its virtualization technologies, VMworld, Microsoft is spreading the word of a big customer win away from the virtualization giant. >>Click here for VMworld Preview<< Microsoft has announced that Fortune 500 company, CH2M Hill, has switched to Microsoft’s virtualization and management software from its previous VMware…
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Dell Sweetens 3PAR Bid Above HP’s Offer
NEW YORK, Aug 26 (Reuters) – Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL) raised its bid for data storage company 3PAR Inc (NYSE:PAR) to $1.6 billion, offering a slightly higher price than rival bidder Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ) in an unfolding tech industry bidding war. Dell’s latest offer comes in at $24.30 a share, which is 30 cents a share…
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Citrix Offers XenDesktop Desktop Virtualization Solution
Virtual computing solutions specialist Citrix Systems announced a new release of XenDesktop that extends desktop virtualization to millions of enterprise laptop users with the addition of two new technologies: XenClient and XenVault. Together, these two technologies make it possible for IT to incorporate mobile laptop users into a unified enterprise desktop virtualization strategy, including corporate-owned…
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HP, 3PAR Acquisition Talks Begin After HP Tops Dell’s Offer
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 24 (Reuters) – 3PAR Inc (NYSE:PAR) said on Tuesday it will start merger talks with Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HPQ) after HP’s $1.6 billion offer for the data storage company trumped a bid by its smaller rival Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL). 3PAR has determined that HP’s proposal was "reasonably likely" to lead to a…
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service Adoption Growing, Report Finds
Software as a service’s younger sibling just got an ego boost, according to a report from IT research firm Yankee Group. A company survey found 24 percent of large enterprises with cloud experience are already using IAAS (infrastructure as a service), and an additional 37 percent expect to adopt IAAS during the next 24 months.…
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CA Technologies Announces IT Client Manager 12.5
IT management software and solutions company CA Technologies announced the latest version of IT Client Manager (ITCM), a solution that extends and automates enterprise capabilities to inventory, manage and deploy physical and virtualized systems and applications. ITCM r12.5 provides application virtualization support, including registering, deploying, detecting, reporting on and updating Microsoft App-V and VMware ThinApp…