Recent Articles
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Vast Majority of Businesses Would Support Personal iPads, Survey Finds
An informal survey by server and desktop virtualization specialist Citrix Systems found an overwhelming majority of businesses would support the adoption of Apple’s iPad, which has moved 2 million units since its debut in April. The preliminary results of the survey were posted by the company’s vice president of community and solutions development Chris Fleck,…
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Novell Offers PlateSpin Solutions for Microsoft Windows and Linux
Novell announced update versions of three of its PlateSpin Workload Management products, Migrate, Protect and Forge. The key upgrade to these latest versions is support for both Microsoft’s Windows operating system (OS) and the open source Linux OS. These virtualization management solutions, which the company said would be available later in the month, offer live…
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HP Enterprise Services Business to Cut 9,000 Jobs
HP (NYSE:HPQ) will cut 9,000 jobs in its HP Enterprise Services Business division, the company has announced, as the result of a data center consolidation to move its infrastructure onto its own Converged Infrastructure product lines. The workforce reduction, which comes two years after HP announced its acquisition of IT services firm EDS, will consolidate…
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Pano Logic Slashes Desktop Virtualization Costs
From a hype perspective, desktop virtualization is thriving with vendors – including VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Wyse Technology and Teradici — claiming to have conquered the next virtualization frontier with solutions that will cut customers’ costs and make more money for solution providers. Pano Logic is looking to raise the bar with an all-in-one zero client…
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ScaleMP Unveils Foundation Virtual Server Aggregation Solution
ScaleMP officials announced May 25 that vSMP Foundation 3.0, which is aimed at the HPC (high-performance computing) space, will support Intel’s Xeon 7500 series “Nehalem EX” processors and Xeon 5600 series “Westmere EP” chips. Doing so means that vSMP Foundation enables the creation of virtual SMP systems that have two to 128 physical nodes. ScaleMP…
