Yesterday the VMware CEO Paul Maritz opened the VMworld Europe 2009 conference with a more concrete keynote compared to his first one given at VMworld 2008.
Besides a formal announcement of the vSphere 4.0 and the Client Hypervisor Platform (CVP), his speech highlighted a couple of key points:
VMware is becoming serious and aggressive in its positioning [...]
This is the conference welcome is opened by Maurizio Carli, the former Google executive that became the new VMware General Manager of EMEA in December 2008.
He starts by saying that compared to last year (4,500 attendees) this year VMworld Europe scored 4,700 attendees despite the economical conditions (early reports were talking about only 3,000 attendees).
Just [...]
After the first day exclusively dedicated to its partners, tomorrow VMware will officially open the VMworld Europe 2009 to all its customers.
The first day will begin with a keynote from Paul Maritz, the CEO who replaced Diane Greene in July 2008, while the second day will begin with a keynote from Steve Herold, the CTO [...]
The first forecast of the year comes from Gartner, which predicted an increase by 43% of virtualization software revenue during this year, moving from $1.9 billion scored in 2008 to $2.7 billion.
In particular the analysis firm expects that revenue from VDI solutions will more than triple from $74.1 million to $298.6 million in 2009 while [...]
In the endless war for the best performance, VMware releases today a new, interesting analysis.
The company run the SPECweb2005 benchmark on a single HP ProLiant DL 585 G5 system with 16 cores and ESX 3.5 Update 3.
The industry standard platform simulates three typical workloads:
a number of customers accessing accounts at a given time via HTTPS
a [...]
The young application virtualization startup InstallFree (launched in April 2008) must be really interesting if it was able to hire away a former Thinstall executive from VMware and a former Kidaro executive from Microsoft.
The first one is Jean Morain, who served as Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Alliances at Thinstall before the VMware acquisition [...]
So far BMC did very few things to ensure a relevant position in the virtualization market.
Sure, the company supports VMware technologies in many of its products and even acquired BladeLogic in March 2008, but nothing suggests a strong commitment on virtualization beyond that. Till today.
VMware customers shouldn’t be surprised if in the coming weeks and [...]
For the forth time in few days that benchmarks about Citrix and VMware desktop virtualization (VDI, presentation virtualization and application virtualization) solutions take the central stage.
Is it a sign that somebody is getting nervous?
The first (non-sponsored) analysis came out from two independent enterprise architects, Ruben Spruijt and Jeroen van de Kamp, which evaluated how XenServer, [...]
The security vendor Tripwire continues to shift its focus on virtualization.
So far the company extended its support to virtual infrastructures (only VMware ones at the moment), released a free configuration checker for VMware ESX, and hired the popular expert Stephen Beaver as virtualization evangelist.
Today Tripwire moves another step towards VMware and release a second free [...]
After more than one year VMware is finally ready to release a stand-alone version of its physical to virtual (P2V) / virtual to virtual (V2V) migration tool that matches the one embedded within VI 3.5.
So far the Standalone version (formerly split in Started Edition and Standalone Enterprise edition) of the product was frozen at version [...]