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• VMware acquires desktop management company Wanova

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 23 May, 2012 11:06

  VMware has acquired Wanova, a developer of software used to centralize and simplify image management on physical and virtual desktops, the company said Tuesday.

• Silver Peak bolsters virtual WAN optimization software

  By Jon Gold | 22 May, 2012 02:27

  Silver Peak today upgraded the software for its WAN appliance to handle automated optimization for TCP and non-TCP traffic, 512,000 simultaneous connections for 10 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) infrastructures and support for a bunch of common hypervisors.

• CIO challenge with BYOD: Don't fall down the rabbit hole

  By Tom Kaneshige | 18 May, 2012 07:56

  When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she emerged into a Wonderland of oddities: trapped in a shrinking body with talking animals, mad tea parties, and a Queen of Hearts who shouts, "Off with her head."

• VMware envisions virtualization in post-PC, BYOD era

  By Thor Olavsrud | 17 May, 2012 06:55

  Late last year, VMware launched a new bring your own device (BYOD) plan under which every one of its 6,000 U.S. employees was required to use his or her personal mobile phones for work. The mandate was more than a cost-saving measure. VMware appears serious about establishing itself as a leader in post-PC era enterprise computing, and getting intimate with the benefits and challenges of BYOD is essential to that plan.

• New engine to power Xangati's performance monitoring product

  By Jon Gold | 15 May, 2012 23:42

  The latest version of Cupertino-based Xangati's virtual dashboard product will boast a new performance management engine and the ability to work with eight instances of VMware vCenter, instead of just one.

• SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 May, 2012 22:06

  SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando.

• Open source cloud project backers duking it out for support

  By Brandon Butler | 12 May, 2012 07:26

  In the less than two months since Citrix gave its CloudStack software an Apache license, cloud providers are beginning to support the open source model.

• VMware going 'all in' with BYOD

  By Tom Kaneshige | 12 May, 2012 05:09

  In most bring-your-own-device plans, employees are the ones bugging management and IT to support their personal devices for work. But VMware took a much different tack when launching its BYOD program late last year: All 6,000 employees in the U.S. must use their personal smartphones for work.

• MIT business school grapples with virtualization

  By Tim Greene | 11 May, 2012 02:52

  MIT's Sloan School of Management has embraced virtualized desktops as a way to meet user needs and streamline operations, but the IT staff accepts that finding just the right mix of hardware and software is an ongoing challenge.

• VMware: Virtualise the rest of the datacentre

  By Brandon Butler | 11 May, 2012 02:52

  The server has been virtualised, now it's time for the rest of the datacentre - including the network - to catch up. That's the message form VMware at this year's Interop, as the company seeks to ensure it remains a major enterprise IT player while the software-defined networking trend continues to gain momentum.

• Cloud providers touting multi-hypervisor support

  By Brandon Butler | 10 May, 2012 05:42

  When Tata Communications, the Indian telecommunications company, rolls out its infrastructure as a service cloud offering in America in the coming months, company officials want to claim differentiating features in the products. And one they're hoping to include is support for multiple hypervisors.

• Infrastructure cloud services take a shift toward PaaS

  By Brandon Butler | 09 May, 2012 01:24

  LAS VEGAS -- Services providers that have traditionally offered infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds are beginning to move up the stack into the platform as a service (PaaS) market in an effort to diversify their portfolio and respond to increasing customer demand for cloud-based development services.

• VMware ups its collaboration offering with Lithium integration

  By Brandon Butler | 04 May, 2012 07:42

  VMware Thursday announced that its SocialCast sharing tool will now work with Lithium Technologies tools to capture and integrate external customer data.

• Arista teams with VMware, Big Switch, Nebula for SDNs

  By Jim Duffy | 03 May, 2012 05:32

  Data center switch vendor Arista Networks next week will demonstrate how to build a software-defined cloud network using its switches, and controllers from partners VMware, Big Switch and Nebula.

• VMware takes on Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive

  By Tim Greene | 03 May, 2012 02:27

  VMware is offering a private-cloud based platform for document sharing and device syncing that could rival  Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive by giving companies more control over their data.