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VMworld blows up a storm
Blog If you're into virtualisation, whether vendor or buyer, then VMworld, VMware's annual virtualisation-fest, is the place to go. VMware won itself a lot of plaudits and general good feeling in the industry when it opened up the first VMworld in 2004...
[August 27, 2009, 12:40]
VMworld Europe: Conference Blog Day 2 (part 3) - The Virtual Road Ahead
Blog Looking at the virtual road ahead as the main section of this VMworld Europe 2008 conference closes, we can perhaps draw a few concluding thoughts from the exhibitors and attendees. Herrod also stressed that this, the first VMworld in Europe, is a...
[February 27, 2008, 16:14]
VMworld Europe: Conference Blog Day 1
Blog As dawn (and the last of the night's facelift victims) shuffle slowly off past Monte Carlo they leave behind a grey and wet Cannes with 4,500 attendees anticipating the start of the first VMworld Europe virtualisation conference.
[February 26, 2008, 5:56]
VMWorld Keynote
Blog A skyrocketing ecosystem - 1400 partners, as many as there were attendees at the first VMWorld. Dr Steve Herrod - VP Tech Dev - takes the stage. We are not normal attendees, he says. We like to talk details.
[November 7, 2006, 15:45]
More quotes from VMWorld
Blog He had yet to meet this VMWorld attendee "I've walked the floor and I'm not feeling a lot of love", Tim Sills, consulting manager and auditing expert, Verisign, on the general attitude towards the more formal side of security from the VMware...
[November 9, 2006, 0:39]
Protecting Virtual Machines : The 'Best of Vmworld' Approach
White Papers This white paper will explore a completely new approach to availability for virtual machines - an approach recognized with the Best of VMworld 2007 - New Technology award. IT Managers need availability solutions that are simple, non-disruptive and...
[November 9, 2009, 10:31]
VMworld blows up a storm
Blog Comment Well whats the point of the event if the core ethos has changed, for the ones who are genuinely interested in greater interoperability amongst one another, they should just start there own up and boycott VMWorld altogether.
[September 4, 2009, 16:39]
VMware security bug exposed on eve of VMworld
News The announcement shows that virtualisation software is just as vulnerable as any other software, according to Core, and comes in the week of the vendor's VMworld event in Cannes, where VMware is expected to announce an important security...
[February 25, 2008, 13:00]
What to expect from VMworld Europe 2008
News This week sees Cannes host the company's first VMworld Europe conference, which will be a chance for partners and customers to assess how fully they want to embrace the virtualisation message. Although VMworld is VMware's show, there will be over...
[February 25, 2008, 8:42]
Protecting Virtual Machines: The "Best of VMworld" Approach
White Papers IT managers and executives have enthusiastically embraced server virtualization because it greatly increases server utilization, reduces capital costs and cuts operating expenses. And a growing number of IT executives are looking beyond server...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
VMworld Europe: Conference Blog Day 2 (part 2)
Blog As much of the discussion so far has focused on server virtualisation, this conference has logically moved on to discuss the potential benefits of virtualisation on the desktop. The argument is that by extending the VMware platform to the desktop...
[February 27, 2008, 9:43]
VMworld Europe: Conference Blog Day 2 (part 1)
Blog After a heavily partner-focused first day, a good many of us here were keen to hear more from VMware itself - and with many of the key announcements saved up for today, it was chief scientist and founder Dr Mendel Rosenblum who took the stage for...
[February 27, 2008, 9:06]
VMworld: Day one roundup
News For things that have no physical existence, virtual applications (VAs) are big and getting much, much bigger. With Microsoft announcing that it will ship demonstration VAs with SQL Server and Exchange running on virtual systems, and BEA saying that...
[November 8, 2006, 16:16]
A little light discipline
Leader Recently, ZDNet UK attended the VMworld conference in Los Angeles. That evening, the conference attendees were shipped to the VMworld after-show party on the Universal Studios lot. A major part of proceedings was the message that virtualisation can...
[December 6, 2006, 16:09]
VMware vs Microsoft: Place your bets
News The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat Microsoft, which weeks earlier announced the free release of its hypervisor product, will prove to virtualisation leader VMware.
[September 22, 2008, 10:05]
It’s Virtual Reality Time in the Data Centre
Blog With VMworld Europe kicking off this morning in Cannes - and the hullabaloo over the Microsoft Hypervisor situation mercifully now behind us - it’s anybody’s guess as to what will make the headlines this year.
[February 24, 2009, 7:05]
Citrix readies virtualisation upgrade
Talkback They announced their VDI solution in a press release last year at VMworld 2005, and they're about to release it in a few days. They're exhibiting at VMworld 2006 in November. The other interesting company in this space is Provision Networks (www...
[October 14, 2006, 18:10]
Novell, VMware push virtual appliances on Suse Linux
News Novell and VMware have teamed up to work with software makers to develop virtual appliances based on Suse Linux Enterprise, the companies announced at the VMworld Europe 2009 conference in Cannes. Novell and VMware also announced at VMworld that on...
[February 25, 2009, 13:34]
Microsoft releases Hyper-V Server R2
News The release came on the eve of VMWorld 2009 in San Francisco, which is organised by virtualisation software leader VMware. Microsoft's virtualisation team complained in a recent team blog that the company would not be able to demonstrate another...
[September 1, 2009, 17:27]
VMware moves vCenter to Linux
News Chief technology officer Stephen Herrod announced the move for vCenter, formerly called Virtual Center Server, in a keynote speech at the VMworld 2009 conference in Cannes. VMware first said it would release a Linux version of the management...
[February 26, 2009, 7:06]
