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At this year’s VMworld Europe keynote address, VMware CTO Stephen Herrod says that one day, thousands of virtual machines will be manageable through one management console. Herrod hopes that day won’t be too far off, what with virtual machines these days being tapped with four virtual CPUs, up to 64 GB of RAM, and 9 [...]

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 [...]

Motley Fool columnist Matt Koppenheffer has named VMware one of his picks for top growth stocks.  “They’re exciting, they have good stories, and they can make you a lot of money,” he writes regarding his affinity for growth stocks. However, he adds, “growth stocks are also the prima donnas of the market. They can be [...]

In a classic “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” move, natural enemies Red Hat and Microsoft are calling a truce long enough to reluctantly concede that yes, virtualization is here to stay, and yes, companies want to be able to run lots of different types operating systems all at the same time, and [...]

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, [...]

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. These [...]

Big corporate IBM user group SHARE released the results of its latest virtualization poll the other day, and it looks like there’s a big opportunity opening up in that space. The SHARE Total Enterprise Virtualization study was conducted on behalf of SHARE by Unisphere Research, back in December. According to SHARE, some of the findings: [...]

In the vein of Microsoft’s “embrace and extend” philosophy, it seems as though virtualization magnate VMware may be prepping itself to make further strides into the telecom market. In November, VMware announced its new VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP), and it acquired Paris-based telecom startup Trango Virtual Processors. Trango says its products are squarely aimed [...]

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