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• VMware makes it easier to wholesale Clouds

  By Tim Greene | 08 February, 2012 07:33

  VMware has introduced a new software platform that makes it easier for service providers to wholesale their cloud-services infrastructure to other providers.

• EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions

  By Stephen Lawson | 07 February, 2012 11:38

  EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards, integration with VMware and less expensive MLC flash media.

• Nicira debuts with its SDN baby

  By Jim Duffy | 06 February, 2012 16:28

  One of the most anticipated debuts of a startup company happens today when Nicira, a maker of network virtualization software, comes out of stealth mode.

• VMTurbo upgrade supports the three major virtualization platforms

  By Tim Greene | 02 February, 2012 02:25

  VMTurbo has upgraded its operations management suite to support the three major virtual environments and to improve its capacity-planning tool.

• Guide: Five ways to mix business and personal data on your smartphone

  By Joseph Fieber | 01 February, 2012 03:33

  Smartphones now make up almost half of all phone sales, and many millions of people use them for personal communications as well as work-related tasks. Yet, few people want to carry multiple phones at all times just to separate the workday from their home life. Here are five ways you can access your business and personal accounts without having to carry two phones.

• Roundtable: Transitioning to telecommunications

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 30 January, 2012 09:04

  The convergence of traditional IT and the telecommunications industry has meant that players from both industries are looking at a broader range of opportunities. But what services do traditional IT resellers and integrators need from their distributor and vendor partners to adopt a broader role in the market, and where is the value for all in making the transition to telecommunications

• Mozy releases 'Stash' file syncing service

  By Lucas Mearian | 26 January, 2012 06:31

  Cloud storage service Mozy on Wednesday announced public beta availability of Mozy Stash , a new feature that provides customers with a method of accessing files across multiple computers and mobile devices.

• EMC lays out product roadmap, warns of disk shortages

  By Lucas Mearian | 25 January, 2012 09:32

  EMC CEO Joe Tucci today offered a high-level overview of the company's product roadmap, which includes a refresh of its VMAX Symmetrix array, its VNXe hybrid array and the general availability of its embedded flash storage product for servers.

• PROFILE: Harnessing the power of the hybrid cloud and beyond

  By Patrick Budmar | 21 June, 2011 11:40

  With the virtualisation needs of Australian and New Zealand companies continually expanding, VMware Australia has stepped up to meet ITS ever growing expectations through the cloud. ARN spoke to VMware Australia Vice-President and Managing Director, Duncan Bennet, about his recent promotion, making virtualisation work and the journey to the cloud.

• Vendor Awards: Software - VMware

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 29 November, 2010 16:12

  VMware has had a stellar year. Riding high on the virtualisation phenomenon that has persisted as cloud becomes the hot new topic of interest, the vendor picked up Software Vendor of the Year for the second consecutive year.

• Q&A: EMC's David Webster talks integration and the cloud

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 07 June, 2010 11:34

  EMC recently held its annual Inform conference in Sydney. Keynote speaker, EMC President for Australia and New Zealand, David Webster, sat down with Matthew Sainsbury to discuss the event, market issues and its vendor partnerships.

• Partnering to success

  By Georgina Swan | 27 September, 2009 15:17

  VMware is not just any IT company — the winner of the 2009 ARN Software Vendor of the Year has a partner community that runs through the entire channel.

• Q&A: VMware CEO Maritz on his new gig, competing against Microsoft and the virtual server 'time bomb'

  By Jon Brodkin | 18 September, 2008 10:35

  Paul Maritz became the president and CEO of VMware in July, after the EMC-owned company's board of directors fired co-founder and CEO Diane Greene. Maritz is now competing in the hot virtualization market against his former employer Microsoft, where he worked from 1986 to 2000 and led many of the company's major software initiatives. EMC executives put him in charge of VMware just a few months after EMC acquired Pi Corporation, a company Maritz founded. Maritz was in Las Vegas this week for VMware's annual VMworld conference, and sat down with Jon Brodkin to talk about company strategy.

• Burning questions: Virtualisation

  By Jon Brodkin | 26 October, 2010 00:52

  Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process -- as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware's ESX, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Xen can make IT more efficient and cost-effective, many of the virtualization advantages can be canceled out when data centers rely on technology and processes that haven't been updated for the virtualization age.

• Microsoft, Citrix and VMware: How the three virtualisation offerings stack up

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 22 September, 2010 12:43

  VMware, Microsoft and Citrix - how do they stack up against one another, and what is their future vision? MATTHEW SAINSBURY reports.

• Desktop Virtualization: Top Vendors Still Miss the Mark

  By Kevin Fogarty | 25 May, 2010 04:23

  Desktop virtualization has a predicted growth curve that leaves much of the PC and IT services industries smiling: Yet none of the technologies or service providers promising to offer hosted virtual desktops are ready to step into key roles in enterprise IT infrastructures, according the same well-respected analysts who set the server virtualization market on its ear with a similar conclusion last year.

• 5 virtual desktop pitfalls

  By Jon Brodkin | 03 April, 2010 06:49

  Most CIOs have started considering virtual desktop infrastructure and other types of desktop virtualization, but only a minority has reached the deployment stage. (See related story, "As Windows 7 gains steam, VDI set to rise".) Virtual desktops can potentially provide more flexibility for users, make it easier to apply patches and reduce IT help desk calls, but there are still numerous problems that keep desktop pros up at night. Here are five pitfalls to watch out for.

• Technologies come and go, but managing networks is still about problem-solving

  By Ellen Messmer | 12 February, 2010 08:03

  Technologies come and go, but managing networks is still about problem-solving in a changing world, as these IT executives can attest.

• VMware cloud initiative raises vendor lock-in concerns

  By Jon Brodkin | 03 September, 2009 23:36

  VMware talks a good game about interoperability, but its cloud initiative threatens to introduce a type of vendor lock-in that rival virtualization vendors claim they would not impose.

• Vendors to fill gaps in cloud, virtual infrastructure

  By Kevin Fogarty | 26 August, 2009 04:05

  IT vendors tend to hold off major announcements until after Labor Day, when customers, presumably, will be paying more attention to work than summer vacation planning. The end-of-August scheduling of VMworld in San Francisco will push that deadline as VMware announces tweaks to its own products and ISVs try to jump-start their marketing to take advantage of what analysts are calling a fundamental IT shift toward cloud computing and virtualization. Here's a look at what to expect from VMware and others at next week's event.

• Next for VMware? Desktop virtualization takes off in 2010

  By Kevin Fogarty | 04 August, 2009 04:25

  Virtualized infrastructures may be "the mainframe for the 21st century," as VMware CTO Stephen Herrod said in April, but the company will move increasingly toward virtualization and management of smaller devices during the next year or two.