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VMware Announces Hyperic Application Monitoring Solution
Virtualization solutions specialist VMware announced SpringSource Hyperic 4.4, a solution designed for for management and monitoring of custom applications. Through integration with VMware’s vCenter Server, Hyperic 4.4 now maintains a continually updated inventory of the company’s vSphere ESXi and ESX hosts, enabling IT administrators to more rapidly pinpoint, correct and prevent application performance problems when…
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Deploy VDI Now10 Reasons to Make the Switch Instead of Replacing Your PCs
Deploy VDI Now10 Reasons to Make the Switch Instead of Replacing Your PCs VDI speeds the desktop provisioning and deployment process. Creating a new desktop PC is a fast and simple process using VDI tools, where a new virtual machine can be built using cloning utilities, application virtualizations and many other tools. No Title VDI…
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Virtualization Offers Opportunities, Challenges for SMBs, Report Says
IT business and market analytics company AMI-Partners announced the findings of a report July 22 suggesting small and midsize businesses are increasingly turning to virtualization to solve their business challenges, which AMI said posed "serious implications" for the midmarket ecosystem, with effects such as "limiting the growth in shipments of physical IT equipment, especially servers."…
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Open Source Gains Respect From Mainstream Vendors
While open source initiatives have always enjoyed a following despite skepticism and obstacles, the momentum behind this week’s O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon, points to a growing momentum around the movement. A decade ago, there were big question marks around how open source – in particular, Linux – would fit into business…
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EMC Quarter Forecast Disappoints Some, But VMware Remains Strong
BOSTON, July 21 (Reuters) – EMC Corp (NYSE:EMC) said it sees "bumps in the road" in the global economic recovery and gave an earnings forecast that disappointed some investors, sending its shares down over 3 percent. Executives at the world’s biggest maker of corporate data storage equipment said on Wednesday that the U.S. federal government…
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Rackspace Open-Source Platform Parts Clouds
Hosting and cloud computing specialist Rackspace Hosting announced the launch of OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. OpenStack will feature several cloud infrastructure components including a fully distributed object store based on Rackspace Cloud Files, available via OpenStack.org. The company said the next component planned…
