VMworld Europe is in full swing, and VMware is taking the opportunity to talk to its captive audience about vSphere, the virtualization operating system that’s making competitors out of companies like Microsoft and Red Hat.
VMware CEO Paul Maritz said “Our customers want the plumbing to disappear – in the datacenter, on the desktop and in [...]

Network equipment manufacturer Cisco is looking longingly at VMware and may make an offer to the virtualization company soon, says Reuters. While apparently Cisco has long been enamored of VMware and even went to talks last summer to explore the purchase of VMware’s parent company EMC.
If EMC decides that it could use the cash, it [...]

VMWare virtualization products make great tools for cloud computing, and the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Show Awards made note of that recently at its first conference earlier this month.   The conference, sponsored by Sys-Con, was attended by directors of engineering and infrastructure, senior architects, IT directors and managers from a variety of companies. [...]

If you’ve been anywhere on the ‘Net over the last year, chances are you’ve heard quite a bit about “cloud computing.” The funny thing is, it’s entirely possible to have heard about it over and over again and still not have the foggiest idea what cloud computing really is. That’s not your fault. Cloud computing [...]