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VMware Prepares for Hyper-V
ORLANDO, Fla.—Eric Horschman knows that the once-cozy relationship that VMware and Microsoft once enjoyed is about to change in the next few weeks. “We’re clearly about to go into direct competition with Microsoft with its Hyper-V technology,” Horschman, the director of product marketing for VMware, said in an interview here at the Microsoft TechEd 2008…
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VMware Faces Virtual Reality
A year after VMware’s successful IPO, virtualization has shifted gears from niche technology to the must-have underpinning for projects ranging from disaster recovery to data backup to desktop application delivery. It’s not surprising, then, that other companies are developing products for the market that VMware has been synonymous with up until now. So CEO Diane…
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SMB Distributor says it is Bucking the Recession Trend
Even as some of its larger rivals seem to be struggling with flat sales, distributor D&H, which is known for catering to resellers serving the small part of SMB, says that it saw a 13 percent increase in sales year over year for its fourth fiscal quarter ended April 30. Now, keep in mind that…
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Is Fujitsu’s Miniscule PC a Big PDA or a Small Tablet?
Don’t kid yourself: Fujitsu’s tiny Lifebook U810 isn’t about to replace your notebook computer any time soon, and it won’t make you chuck your BlackBerry or Treo into the trash. But the $999 U810 may fill a niche for many mobile Web surfers and on-the-go executives. Surprisingly, Fujitsu’s tiny tablet PC is loaded with features…
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VARs Choose VMware for Server Virtualization
It’s been said "no one gets fired for buying IBM." These days you may want to add VMware to that vaunted list. Solution providers have lined up in droves behind the market leader in virtualization – widely acknowledged to command about a 90-percent share. Rivals like Citrix’s Xen technology and Virtual Iron have not come…
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Zeppelin Mashup a Lesson in Delivering a Whole Lotta Love
Much of what I know about life I learned from Led Zeppelin. Don’t ask. It happened again this week as I continued to try to get my head around the whole partner-to-partner relationship thing. I know this is supposed to be hot in the channel now. Force multipliers. All of the distributors are tripping over…