Juniper Networks this week acquired Contrail Systems, a startup that makes controllers for software-defined networks, for $176 million in cash and stock. Contrail was founded early this year by officials from Google, Cisco, Juniper and ...
Tags: contrail systems, Juniper, SDN, software, networking, Juniper Networks
Symantec has announced the latest version of its Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), which adds the ability to reduce virtual machine recovery times by using VMware's vMotion data migration capabilities. The new version of VCS, slated to be ...
Infor has teamed up with VMWare to help customers of its Infor LN ERP (enterprise resource planning) software run on VMWare's latest virtualisation technology, opening a door to cloud deployments and potentially lower infrastructure costs. ...
Tags: cloud, enterprise resource planning, ERP, Infor, virtualisation, VMWare
Nicira, the software-defined networking (SDN) startup that VMware purchased for $1.2 billion earlier this year, plans to release an SDN product that runs independent of the underlying hypervisor and hardware that will work in VMware ...
Tags: casado, CTO, data centre, hardware, hypervisor, nicira, OpenFlow
Some virtualisation admins are slow to update VMware’s patches because they are afraid their app functions won’t work, however patches fix vulnerabilities and are a risk that must be taken. Despite potential threats to a ...
Redis, an open source in-memory data store maintained by VMware, has been upgraded to be more stabile and make more judicious use of memory, two traits that should make it more appealing for enterprise deployments. “Redis 2.6 is ...
Tags: cloud, highlightedpost, Redis, VMWare
Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices yesterday announced high-performance graphics chips for supercomputers. Nvidia announced GPUs (graphics processing units) called K20 and K20X, with the latter being used in Titan, a 20-petaflop ...
Tags: Advanced Micro Devices, AMD, chips, graphics processing units, Nvidia
Cisco released free software updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in its AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client as well as other hardware security appliances including its ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances. The Cisco ...
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The global software market grew 4.7 percent in the first half of this year to US$167 billion, with CRM (customer relationship management), virtualisation and collaboration coming in as the fastest-growing segments, according to figures ...
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Microsoft is set to demonstrate the reasons it believes enterprises need to adopt the new version of its Exchange email server at a conference this week devoted to the product. On Monday, the company focused on security, management and ...
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Dell and VMware will sell a bundled system with server, network and storage components in support of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), the companies announced this week. Dell’s new vStart for VDI is based on VMware’s View ...
Tags: Dell, virtual desktop, network, storage component
Together Housing has saved pound 500,000 by moving to a virtualised server environment. The group was formed from six other associations, all with their own legacy systems. The association is responsible for more than 35,000 homes. The ...
Microsoft has patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company’s popular Word programme and another already used to attack ...
Tags: Bugs, Microsoft, Patches, Steve Ballmer, Trojan, vulnerabilities
Dell mapped out the next phase of its data centre strategy on Thursday with new hardware and software that it says will make it faster and cheaper for customers to deploy new hardware and applications. The new products include the Active ...
Tags: active systems, applications, cloud, Dell, desktop, hardware
Dell today unveiled a series of end-to-end storage portfolio updates aimed at further optimising enterprise data at every point of its lifecycle. The new products were revealed by Darren Thomas, VP and GM, Dell Storage, at the ...
Tags: appliance, architecture, archiving, backup, Dell Unveils