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Potential VMware Acquisition May Threaten Microsoft Exchange Stronghold
As if it weren’t enough that VMware owns most of the server virtualization market out there today, now the company is rumored to be interested in buying open-source messaging, e-mail and collaboration vendor Zimbra from Yahoo. Rumors first surfaced last fall that Yahoo, which purchased Zimbra two years before, was looking to sell it just…
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Dramatic Data Center Denouement: Making Sense of 2009
Lean and Green Seems like one of the mantras of 2009 was “Do more with less,” and that’s what going green is most often all about. Whether it’s greater energy efficiency or greater attention to recycling IT assets when they’ve come to the end of their useful lives, green was a big trend for the…
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VMware Partners with Academia to Spread VMware Skills
Even as this recession eroded salaries and increased unemployment, top-notch virtualization and VMware engineers have defied the trend, remaining in high demand and getting six-figure salaries. And while certifications don’t necessarily guarantee that you’ll get that kind of a deal—experience and skill factor in as well—they will help land that job or contract. To meet…
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Dell Strikes Back at Data Center Rivals HP, Cisco
Dell is taking the build-to-order philosophy that vaulted the company to success in the 1990s and applying it to the data center with a plan for modular components of computing, storage, networking and infrastructure management that can be easily assembled, deployed and managed. The announcement Dec. 10 is Dell’s answer to Cisco Systems’ and Hewlett-Packard’s…
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Ingram Micro Brings Cisco Vblock Designs to Broader Channel
Cisco’s Vblock infrastructure architecture isn’t just for giant solution providers anymore. IT distribution giant Ingram Micro this week announced that it would make the Cisco, EMC and VMware’s Vblock data center reference designs, the products to build them, and the support needed to do it, available to the 2,500 of its channel partners who are…
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Microsoft Hyper-V Takes On VMware on Virtualization: Will the Mighty Fall?
On the surface, VMware’s unshakable stronghold in the enterprise so far seems unchallenged by the likes of virtualization alternatives from vendors such as Citrix and Microsoft. But although VMware ranked top among best vendors in TheInfoPro’s most recent survey of IT leaders at about 300 enterprises, there is just the barest hint that Microsoft may…