As network switch latencies fall and the architecture for processor coherency migrates from a frontside bus to a coherent network, technology is driving towards the next generation of distributed processing, which extends a microprocessor's coherent interconnect onto a standard network

DreamFactory, a pioneer in cloud-based Web applications and development tools, announced the company will offer its entire DreamFactory Suite on the new Intuit QuickBase Development Platform. DreamFactory's project management and collaboration cloudware will soon be readily available t

Cloud Computing is the new buzz word in the technology industry. But even industry insiders don't agree on exactly what the term means. Mike Eaton, Founder and CEO of Cloudworks and Atticus Information Systems, will be giving a breakout session at SYS-CON's 'Cloud Computing Expo' (Nove

Virtual Foresight is a policy-based virtualization management product that delivers out-of-the box best practices for enforcing IT Operations and Security policies. Acting as a critical control point, Virtual Foresight ensures policy enforcement throughout the lifecycle of a virtual ma

MaximumASP announced the release of Hyper-V technology as part of their dedicated server line-up. MaximumASP was among a handful of hosting providers selected for the Hyper-V Go Live program and first to launch hosted betas for IIS 7/Windows Server 2008 dedicated servers.

BLADE Network Technologies announced that it has joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing computer power consumption by 50 percent by 2010. As a pioneer of energy-efficient data center networking, BLADE is recognized on AlwaysOn's

David C. Laurello, president and chief executive officer of Stratus Technologies, has been elected as chairman of the board of directors. Former chairman, Stephen C. Kiely, continues to serve the company as a member of the board.

LeftHand Networks announced that the company's Advantage Partner Program is growing at an accelerated rate, adding 145 new VARs to its global program since November 2007. At more than 425 partners worldwide, the program's strong growth is attributed to the expanding iSCSI SAN market an

After much soul-searching but finding no 'compelling reason,' Intel of all people is not going to upgrade its 80,000 PCs to Vista except in a few places; XP is just fine, thank you, according to a piece on a New York Times blog that actually started in the Inquirer. That started people

Mike Eaton, the founder and CEO of Cloudworks, provides five tips for companies watching their bottom line in a tight economy to enhance the remote access for mobile professionals through cloud computing.

DataCore announced that Alchemy Plus is using DataCore's SANmelody solution to provide a hosted server virtualization farm environment for small businesses under a 'Pay as You Use' utility computing framework. Alchemy Plus' data center is located in Dingwall in the Scottish Highlands.

The President of EMC's Cloud Computing Division, Paul Maritz, has been made President & CEO of VMware, immediately replacing co-founder and virtualization pioneer Diane Greene. Here Virtualization Journal brings a round up of the early reactions from the virtualization blogosphere.

Valtira announced the availability of The Valtira Online Marketing Platform on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Valtira customers now have access to the most cost-effective, scalable, flexible infrastructure to power their web marketing solutions.

Mellanox Technologies and Galactic Computing announced that Mellanox's 20Gb/s InfiniBand adapters provide the low-latency, high-performance storage interconnect for Galactic Computing's line of VSTOR storage systems and gateways, providing an adaptive and responsive infrastructure for

VKernel announced the appointment of Gene Fay as vice president of sales. In this role, Fay is responsible for VKernel's worldwide sales and will be instrumental in expanding the company's go-to-market strategy and building successful channel partner programs.

NeoAccel announced the VMware version of its flagship product, SSL VPN-Plus. SSL VPN-Plus Gateway is the only 3rd Generation VPN able to replace IPSec and to supersede conventional SSL VPNs which suffer from the TCP-over-TCP meltdown and degraded client-server application performance.

BLADE Network Technologies announced that it has joined The Green Grid consortium. As a member of the consortium, BLADE will promote the energy efficiency of today's data centers through best practices for implementing 'green' networking infrastructures. As a pioneer of energy-efficien

Virtualization is fast emerging as a game-changing technology in the enterprise computing space. What was once viewed as a technology useful for testing and development is going mainstream and is affecting the entire data-center ecosystem.

Univa UD announced the publication of a white paper and supporting tools that documents the process of implementing its open source UniCluster product in Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) web service. Univa UD sponsored BioTeam, a life sciences informatics consultancy and systems

VMware released their new application virtualization solution called ThinApp that was acquired from Thinstall earlier this year. ThinApp is a bit different than most of the other app virtualization solutions on the market as at the end of the day IT is left with a standalone applicatio

Beijing PowerUnique Technologies announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware virtualization software and deliver solutions to mutual customers.

VMware announced it has completed the acquisition of B-hive Networks. VMware announced a definitive agreement to acquire B-hive on May 28, 2008. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. With this acquisition, VMware will leverage the B-hive team and technology to enhance the VMw

'Virtualization use has exploded since our last survey of the European market,' said Chris Ingle, consulting and research director of IDC's Systems Group, as IDC this week released its 2008 European Server Virtualization Survey. The study was first carried out in 2007 and has been repe

We recently returned from the SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, June 23-24. The conference hosted a slate of exceptional speakers - representing both the larger industry players such as Red Hat (Brian Stevens), C

Marathon Technologies announced today that it has been selected by Everything Channel as a CRN Emerging Tech vendor for developing everRun VM, the world's first fault-tolerant, high availability software for server virtualization. CRN's Emerging Tech list highlights companies that are

Genius Inside announced the creation and launch of Genius Project, a comprehensive, easy-to-use, on-demand, collaborative PPM solution that helps companies get things done better, faster, and cheaper than ever before, across any and all geographic boundaries.

PlateSpin has trotted out its first major product release since Novell bought the virtualization management operation back in March with the launch of PowerConvert 7.0, its data center disaster recovery mojo. The software has new backup and recovery features and expanded multi-platform

Open Source. Open Standards. Open Collaboration. At the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo, Red Hat's CTO Brian Stevens spoke about how, over the past five years, the open source community has turned its attention to virtualization and what has been achieved and what is

Microsoft managed to get its VMware-spooking Hyper-V, its hypervisor-based virtualization technology, out the door Thursday, which is something of an accomplishment considering that by Microsoft's clock the thing is weeks early, having not been expected until August sometime.

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

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

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Yesterday we read the news of B-hive's acquisition by VMware. Also this week Microsoft closed the Kidaro acquisition, which had been announced earlier in the year. Both of these companies participated in SYS-CON's second international Virtualization Conference & Expo last November in S

Google is currently the pet of the American consumer. Although many in the industry don't find it particularly likeable, the company's reputation is tops among US consumers, based largely on how it treats employees and a perception of social responsibility, according to a Harris poll,

'Traditionally people have tied their software to their hardware. Virtualization changes all that,' said Dr Stephen Herrod, CTO of VMware, the 10-year old Virtualization giant. Herrod gave a highly informative Morning Keynote today in New York City at the 3rd International Virtualizati

NetSuite, the Larry Ellison SaaS company, is buying OpenAir, the 56-man shop that is supposed to be the leader in on-demand professional services automation, for $26 million cash, net of the cash on the acquisition's balance sheet. NetSuite says it probably won't be able recognize most

Parallels announced that ProServe has selected Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 to deliver a cost-efficient and scalable Online Backup solution via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers provides the virtualization technology for ProServe's Virtual Onlin

The fireworks over Armonk this 4th of July are going to be a bit brighter and more awesome because - by the flick of a checkbook - IBM has gotten out from under a threat to its precious multibillion-dollar mainframe monopoly.

Novell says it's going to 'simplify' pricing and discounts on SLES for mainframes for the rest of the year. That means it's going to cut prices by 33%-47% by offering a three-year subscription for the price of a two-year subscription or a five-year subscription for the price of a three

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8 is the gold standard in complete Windows system recovery allowing businesses and IT to recover from system loss or disasters in minutes, even to dissimilar hardware and virtual environments. Helping IT administrators meet recovery time objectives,