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<item><title>VMware Launches Solution Exchange Cloud, Virtualization Marketplace</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[VMware is opening its Solution Exchange, an online marketplace that offers virtualization and cloud solutions, to help the company attract new customers and fend off competition from Red Hat, Microsoft and IBM.   -  VMware is joining a number of other virtualization and cloud vendors in trying to leverage online marketing muscle to expand its customer base, while offering new products to its partners and developers. On Jan. 25, VMware officially launched its Solution Exchange, an online virtualization and cloud...]]></description>
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<item><title>VMware Profits Rise 67 Percent</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[VMware posted quarterly net income of $200 million (46 cents per share) -- up from $120 million (28 cents per share) in the same period a year earlier.   -  VMware,  the world's largest virtualization software and services provider, popped open  at least a few people's eyes Jan. 23 when it announced a whopping 67 percent  year-over-year net income increase in its fourth-quarter 2011 earnings report.  Continued  growth in service and license revenue to g...]]></description>
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<item><title>Novell Launches ZenWorks Application Virtualization Platform</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:20:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The platform also features application control, which helps ensure IT can maintain compliance with its license agreements.   -  IT systems software specialist Novell announced the release of ZenWorks Application Virtualization 9, which leverages an approach to application harvesting that is designed to enable enterprise IT staff to tap into a library of resources and find the best stored version to build the virtual applicat...]]></description>
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<item><title>VMware View Bolts On Additional Virtual Desktop Control</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[View 5 enhances remote desktop throttling to improve performance.   -  VMware  View 5 improves the end-user experience when employing PC over Internet  Protocol display-compression technology by adding throttling that cuts back  network usage. View 5 also added Persona, VMware  s entry into user-profile  management, a much-needed feature to keep up in the competitive v...]]></description>
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<item><title>VDI Evolves Beyond Desktop Replacement</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Once viewed as the formula for desktop PC provisioning and management roles, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technology is moving into the mainstream via a new path, as a solution for business services.   -  Most enterprise administrators have viewed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure as a way to deliver enterprise desktops to users more efficiently.  However, VDI can deliver more than just a typical business desktop; the technology can also be used to deliver specialized business services.  A case in point...]]></description>
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<item><title>Virtualization Management Brings the Ultimate in Efficiency</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Virtualization technology is delivering on its promise of creating a more energy-efficient and cost-effective data center. However, there  s plenty of room to improve the technology, especially as IT enters the cloud computing era.   -  A  funny thing happened on the way to virtualization: Many IT managers discovered  that instead of bringing simplicity to their busy data centers, the technology actually  made things more complicated. Sure, physical server counts were reduced, energy  costs lowered and hardware footprints shrank  a...]]></description>
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<item><title>VMware Unveils New Desktop VDI Clients for Mac OS, Linux</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The formerly Windows-centric View application layer is now enabled with new desktop clients for Ubuntu Linux and Mac OS, in addition to a mobile one for the Kindle Fire tablet.   -  VMware came out Dec. 15 with five new or updated desktop and mobile device clients to operate its VMware View enterprise virtual desktop software.    The former Windows-centric View application layer is now enabled with new desktop clients for Ubuntu Linux and Mac OS (tech preview at this time only)...]]></description>
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<item><title>Performance, Costs Top Storage Challenges for VDI Projects</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:07:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[30 percent identified overall costs of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments as the biggest obstacle.   -  Nimble Storage, developer of converged storage and backup solutions, announced the results of a survey of 600 enterprise IT professionals regarding their current and future plans to deploy VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) technology. Over half of the respondents (54 percent) identified storage p...]]></description>
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<item><title>F5 Partners With NetApp, VMware on Virtual Machine Migration</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[F5 continues its collaboration with NetApp and VMware to  simplify the migration of applications between data centers.   -  F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), a specialist in Application Delivery Networking, announced improved live virtual machine migration capabilities for customers leveraging NetApp unified storage and VMware virtualization solutions. The solution combines the companies   technologies to help customers ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Bocada Launches VM Backup Monitoring Solution</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bocada Vision addresses issues of VM recoverability by providing insight into whether backups are successful and where recovery points are, among other data points.   -  Data-protection software  maker Bocada on Nov.2 added a new product for those struggling in the virtual  IT world with the introduction of a VM monitoring software package.  Bocada Vision provides  insight into the data-protection operations of virtual environments. Users can  monitor backup methods...]]></description>
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<item><title>Virtualized Environments Causing Data Loss for Businesses: Report </title>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:52:29 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Common causes of data loss from virtualized environments include file system corruption and deleted virtual machines.   -  Sixty-five
percent of organizations frequently experience data loss from a virtual
environment, according to 369 IT professionals surveyed by data protection
specialist Kroll Ontrack. That figure represents a 140 percent increase in
virtual data loss when compared with last year's survey. 
Key...]]></description>
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<item><title>HP, Microsoft Partner on 'Vblock Killer' VM System</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[HP VirtualSystem for Microsoft, a similarly integrated, preconfigured IT system aimed at cloud computing workloads, is now in the virtual boxing ring with Cisco-EMC-VMware Vblocks.   -  When three industry giants--Cisco Systems (networking), EMC  (storage) and VMware (virtualization) formed the Virtual Computing  Environment joint venture called Acadia in November 2009 to build  Vblock virtualized data center systems, well-informed industry folks  knew it was only a matter of time ...]]></description>
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<item><title>VMware's Workstation Updated for Multiple VMs</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Workstation, designed for x86 and x86 64-bit servers or PCs, enables users to set up multiple virtual machines on a single physical box.   -  Virtualization market king VMware on Sept. 14 upgraded its  Workstation software package to version 8 by adding no fewer than 50  new features.     Workstation, designed for x86 and x86 64-bit servers or PCs, enables  users to set up multiple virtual machines on a single physical box.  User then can...]]></description>
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<item><title>VMware CTO Highlights vSphere 5 Advantages</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[VMware CTO Steve Herrod focused on the consistent advances in the company's virtualization technology with the recent release of its flagship vSphere 5 product. The speech comes amid an intensified challenge on pricing from Microsoft and its Hyper-V hypervisor.   -  LAS  VEGAS --   VMware CTO Steve Herrod used his keynote address at VMworld to focus on  the newly released flagship vSphere 5 while also showing technologies that  leverage VMware  s leadership position in data center and desktop  virtualization.  &quot;  The  most exciting thing I have to announce is t...]]></description>
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<item><title>Businesses Gain Agility, Cut Costs with Server Virtualization: Report</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:25:13 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The study found 25 percent of small businesses have virtualized at least some of their servers.   -  Small businesses are moving steadily toward more virtualized
computing infrastructures, with server virtualization – running multiple,
independent, virtual operating systems on a single server – increasing the
productivity, agility and scalability of computing resources and the business
itself, ...]]></description>
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