Citrix has bought sepago GmbH's sepagoProfile software so user profiles in XenDesktop, XenApp and Provisioning Server are integrated. Terms were not disclosed but as part of the deal the Cologne-based sepago will continue developing the product for virtualizing application provisioning

VMware CTO Steve Herrod, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, and Allen Stewart, Group Manager of Windows Virtualization at Microsoft are among the top industry executives joining Jeremy Geelan in the famous 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Ti

Double-Take unveiled its protection, availability and migration solutions for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Support includes real-time physical-to-virtual (P2V) full system replication for migration and failover, and virtual-to-virtual (V2V) replication and failover for maximum uptime.

Is 'Virtualization 2.0' just a catchphrase? Is it a new term that analysts can cling to? Is it a re-hash of technology from 20 years ago? Is it new? Is this really new technology that will have a material impact on how data centers are managed? If not, then it's just another marketing

2007 was a breakout year for virtualization, as it finally hit the mainstream. But where do we go from here? The virtualization 'wave' is just forming. And while server virtualization is at full crest, there are many more waves behind this that are taking shape and quite frankly, are m

ServePath, a six-year-old managed hoster out of San Francisco that Deloitte figures is one of the fastest-growing companies in America, has what it thinks is the very first Windows cloud in creation, and is positioning it as 'the first real alternative' to the mighty Amazon's EC2. The

ManageSoft now supports VMware ESX Server with its Enterprise Compliance Manager software that enables its customers to fill the license compliance chasm created by the virtualization wave. This software provides a path to resolution for companies embracing application and server vir

Virtualization will be the highest-impact trend changing IT infrastructure and operations through 2012, according to Gartner. Virtualization will transform how IT is managed, what is bought, how it is deployed, how companies plan and how they are charged. As a result, virtualization is

ComScore has upped Google's US search share. It was 59.8% in March and now for April it's 61.6%. It gave Yahoo 20.4% and Microsoft 9.1%. HP and Foxconn International, a unit of Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry, the big contract manufacturer, are building a $50 million factory ou

Novell announced it has received an SAP Pinnacle Award in the category 'Technology: Co-Innovation for Core Business,' recognizing Novell as an SAP partner who has made significant contributions to SAP's customer-focused ecosystem. Novell was honored specifically for work with SAP on SU

'Virtualization is one of the most interesting IT topics these days,' says Roland Wartenberg, SAP's Director of Virtualization. 'Whereas one can find a lot of concepts and high level content provided by various vendors, it's sometimes a challenge to find detailed technical information

Nirvanix announced the commercial availability of its Storage Delivery Network (SDN) for Enterprises, providing large companies with an archival and backup storage solution that simplifies management and reduces the costs typically associated with storage server management in a set of

PCI-SIG announced the completion of the PCI-SIG I/O Virtualization (IOV) suite of specifications. These specifications will enable virtualization solutions to tackle the most I/O-intensive workloads by removing performance bottlenecks in both software and hardware virtualization compon

Configuresoft announced that its Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM) for Virtualization was named as a finalist of the 'Best of Tech?Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards' in the Virtualization Award Category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

Storage industry veteran Sajai Krishnan will take the top office at Parascale, a startup company developing cloud storage solutions for rich-media content in traffic-intense applications. As Parascale's new CEO, Krishnan will steer the company's launch into software to power highly sca

Aonix announced the beginning of implementation efforts to add symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) capability to its flagship product PERC Ultra. Dubbed PERC Ultra SMP, the product will address the added complexities inherent in design, development, and deployment of SMP-targeted applicati

Helping value-added resellers (VARs) take the complexity out of selling server and desktop virtualization, the Advanced Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) Division of Tech Data Corporation introduced two mobile virtualization labs. The virtualization labs- 25U racks configured with IBM and

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Continuous integration is rapidly being adopted as a key process in software development as part of the shift towards Agile methodologies to improve software quality, reduce costly rework due to broken builds, and increase business value delivered to customers - click to download and l

From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown

Since Microsoft's forecast - and its margin implications - is nothing to sneeze at, we asked industry analyst and cloud spotter Amy Wohl what she has been seeing. 'The first thing to keep in mind is that we have some semantic confusion, as is usual at this stage of a new market, around

IBM is starting to monetize Lotus Symphony, its freebie collection of Office-displacing ODF-based software for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations - but not for the money. It's offering unlimited subscription-based remote technical support to large organizati

VMware announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Thinstall. VMware is acquiring Thinstall to expand its desktop virtualization capabilities which help customers better provision, deploy and update desktop environments. The terms of the acquisition, which is expect

VMware is buying a little San Francisco-based application virtualization house called Thinstall on undisclosed terms to expand its ability to provision, deploy and update the desktop. VMware observes that delivering applications is the single largest cost of desktop administration and

Rumor has it that Salesforce.com, that CRM paean to cloud computing, is going to start selling Gmail and Google Docs integrated into its system. The pair cut a deal nine months ago for Saleforce to include Adwords in its applications.

As a technology provider that helps application companies embrace cloud computing by virtualizing the applications to run on any cloud, I was a bit disappointed with Google's appengine announcement. It appears that Google is embracing the 'walled garden' approach of SalesForce.com and

AMD has announced its next-generation Centrino-chasing notebook platform Puma, touting it as delivering the 'ultimate HD visual performance' as well as increased energy efficiency. It's depending on the widgetry to fix some of its $4.3 billion in losses accumulated during the last six

Sun is rushing in where other server vendor have so far feared to tread and says that starting in the second half it will offer servers and storage based on Flash, the pricey kind of widgetry found in cell phones and MP3 players. It claims it will be ahead of the curve and that by the

Mike Neil is general manager for virtualization strategy in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft. Mike is focused on the delivery of the Windows virtualization technology, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Virtual PC 2007. Mike also directs the tec

Well, I just realized that I had dived into talking about how to do things with Hyper-V without first taking the time to orient you on some of the terminology used. So I would now take the time to correct that. Note that many of these terms are not used in the user interface / document

VMware deserves a lot of credit. Even though hardware virtualization has been around for decades in one form or another, we wouldn't have it in the x86 space without VMware. The hardware and OS vendors would have been happy to keep selling hardware that was only 20% utilized. VMware tu

Quest Software has expanded its set of solutions to help organizations plan, deploy and manage their IT infrastructures by maximizing their investment in the Microsoft System Center Platform. Quest will unveil its comprehensive solutions, including the availability of Quest Management

'Until 2008, VMware was the only choice, their hypervisor cost thousands of dollars, and they had the market to themselves,' says Citrix CTO Simon Crosby in this Exclusive Q&A in the run-up to the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo next month in New York. 'In 2008, Citr

Microsoft is making System Center, its central management scheme, natively manage Linux, Unix and VMware virtual servers. The widgetry has always been a Windows-only affair, but now there are betas available showing off Microsoft's cross-platform prowess, important to Microsoft's place

The last 10 years has seen a remarkable evolution in virtualization. First generation virtualization centered on Development & Testing and was largely confined to desktop computers and test servers. Second generation technology focused on Server Consolidation to lower hardware costs an

Ericom announced that PowerTerm WebConnect, Ericom's presentation virtualization and desktop virtualization (VDI) solution, now provides centrally managed access to virtual desktops running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, a hypervisor-based virtualization platform. PowerTerm

Adobe says Acrobat 9.0, a major upgrade, will be available in July and in three different versions: Standard, Pro and Pro Extended. It will be sold standalone and Pro will be integrated into Adobe's Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium and Standard editions. CS 3.3 is also due in July.

There will soon be a myriad of announcements of DBMS offerings in the cloud. Many of these will NOT be marriages made in heaven. However, the most innovative new DBMS software combined with new cloud computing services are here today and truly take advantage of the cloud architecture i

Symantec announced updates to Altiris Deployment Solution and Ghost Solution Suite, comprising a complete operating system deployment, imaging and management portfolio. Symantec is providing the next-generation of OS management technologies to help customers of all sizes address OS and

XenSource signed an important partnership with Symantec about 9 months ago, that would allow us to integrate Symantec Storage Foundation as an included volume manager in XenSource's XenEnterprise product. The deal was based on the realities of the XenSource situation at the time - name