It's been just 60 days since Dell completed the acquisition of thin-client company Wyse, but the business unit is moving forward with plans to release new thin clients designed to work with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 OS. The devices ...
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Zend and VMware are announcing an integration between the Zend Server PHP application server and VMware's vFabric Application Director tool for automating the provisioning of applications to clouds. The partnership allows enterprises to ...
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European IT firm Bull SAS tailor-makes private cloud with security assured The research labs at Bull SAS – the European IT company that helps public sector organisations to optimise their IT architecture – handle development ...
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Microsoft has done a lot to boost Hyper-V but the improvements do not justify switching from VMware, according to Gartner. Speaking prior to the analyst's datacentre conference at Westminster, Gartner vice-president and distinguished ...
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NetApp has claimed sales of its FlexPod integrated storage,server and networking stacks grew nearly 1,000%in a year. In a presentation at the NetApp Insight partner event in Dublin,product solutions and alliances director John Rollason ...
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Software defined datacentres, cloud management and automation, virtualisation licensing, mobile virtualisation, heterogeneity and the need for IT executives to develop new skills in the cloud era were some of the themes of the VMworld ...
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A shift has taken place with companies running public, private and hybrid cloud. So said Jorg Liebe, chief information officer of Lufthansa Systems, during a session at VMworld Europe 2012. Headquartered in Kelsterbach, near ...
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VMworld Europe 2012 has kicked off in Barcelona,with 11,000 attendees expected to descend on the Fira Gran Via over the next four days. VMware's annual European event was opened with keynotes from VMware senior executives giving an ...
Three storage suppliers used VMworld Europe 2012 to launch converged storage stacks. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) launched 11 Unified Computing Platform stacks, NetApp added SME-targeted ExpressPods to its existing FlexPod converged stack ...
US insurance company Nationwide Insurance is using VMware's ITBM tool to manage all the costs associated with running IT services for the business. Nationwide Insurance now offers internal IT users a service catalogue, with pricing, to ...
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VMware is launching a suite of products to help IT executives manage workspace apps on consumers' mobile devices – including Apple iPhones – securely. This will help enterprises regain control of IT amid growing ...
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Companies, including large multinationals that virtualise Oracle databases using VMware products, are finding it challenging to remain compliant with Oracle's complex licensing policies. Such lack of compliance is costing them millions in ...
At VMworld in Barcelona yesterday, VMware executives fleshed out the company's software-defined datacentre vision of storage virtualised from the server hypervisor. This will provide pools of data capacity in native virtual disk format ...
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With 25,000 employees and 751 branches across the US, Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores had its work cut out when it decided to virtualise SAP and migrate from an IBM mainframe onto x86 servers using VMware technologies. During VMworld ...
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VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger (pictured) used his keynote presentation at VMworld Europe in Barcelona to unveil how the virtualisation company would build software-defined datacentres using IT management and automation tools. "We need to make ...
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