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The cloud is a major focus at VMware’s VMworld conference, but given that the cloud has been front and center in virtually every IT event, analyst report, press release or news story for many months, it was pretty much a given that it would be. Since VMware launched its vCloud initiative a year ago it […]

(Reuters) – A majority of Google mail users were unable to access the service on Tuesday afternoon, in a rare widespread outage of the popular Gmail service. Google said at 5:37 p.m. edt (9:37 GMT) that it fixed the problem but was still investigating the cause of the outage, which lasted for over an hour. […]

SAN FRANCISCO: VMware kicked off the sixth VMworld with product, program and results announcements, but a number of its partners, including the don’t-turn-your-back-on-duo Microsoft and Citrix, had their own news to spread. Here’s a sampling of some of the announcements made just prior to or at the event. Microsoft really jumped the gun, with its […]

SAN FRANCISCO: VMware kicked off its sixth annual VMworld with a flurry of announcements including new products, partnerships and performance data. The virtualization event, which runs until Thursday, is expected to draw more than 10,000 attendees and over 200 sponsors and exhibitors. This year’s theme is ‘Hello Freedom’, and ‘goodbye to the limitations of the […]

(Reuters) – Advanced Micro Devices Inc ships a lower-power version of its Opteron server chip on Monday as it tries to expand its offerings for Web hosting companies. The company declined to give its projections for revenues from the new chip. AMD said the new chip is aimed at companies that use servers for tasks […]

SAN FRANCISCO: Virtualization takes center stage this week as VMware, the reigning champion, marshals its forces at VMworld. However, while the company may be on top of the virtualization heap, competitors like Microsoft and Citrix are marshaling their forces for a shot at the crown. VMware still carries advanced management options for virtualization such as […]

Seems like every year, some vendor or group of solution providers starts pushing the idea of customers leasing hardware – servers, routers, switches, firewalls, storage arrays, etc. Just as you do with cars (or we did before the credit crisis), a business would lease the hardware in their data center and contract with the solution […]

Have you heard the one about the college student who couldn’t understand why her PC’s warranty was voided because it didn’t cover accidental or intentional emersions in swimming pools? How about the one about the executive who berated her service provider because they couldn’t provision her email to automatically deliver messages without her having to […]

IBM has released results from its X-Force 2009 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report. The report’s findings show an unprecedented state of Web insecurity as Web client, server, and content threats converge to create an untenable risk landscape. According to the report, there has been a 508 percent increase in the number of new malicious Web […]

Iomega, an EMC company focused mainly on the SMB and SOHO markets, has announced the next generation of its quad-drive desktop NAS appliance with the worldwide launch of the new Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d. Iomega is pitching it as an affordable, high performance NAS appliance for small businesses, distributed offices and home office networks, that require […]

Dell surprised Wall Street minutes before the closing bell of trading yesterday by releasing better than expected quarterly earnings and profit report. Analysts had expected recession and competitive pressures to keep Dell’s earnings in check and cap margins at 17.7 percent. But Dell shocked The Street with margins a full percentage point higher. Does the […]

Traditional Web sites are being replaced by social media and Web 2.0 communities for vendor and partner marketing and sales activities, and the number of people using such tools for sales purposes is increasing as the technology continues to evolve and users start to understand how to better take advantage of the benefits. In fact, […]