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  IN PICTURES: VMware's partners get together to Exchange 2012
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  IN PICTURES: Securing the journey to the Cloud roundtable
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  In Pictures: VMware PEX 2011 - Partner Appreciation Party

• Wall Street Beat: June starts slow but hope for tech in 2012 remains

  By Marc Ferranti | 01 June, 2012 19:09

  June is off to a rocky in the markets for technology companies as shares slump in the wake of troubling economic reports, though cooler heads appear to have confidence in the sector for the long term.

• Ingram Micro signed as Silver Peak distributor

  By Spandas Lui | 31 May, 2012 11:03

  WAN optimisation vendor, Silver Peak, has signed Ingram Micro as a distributor for the Asia-Pacific region with a focus on Australia.

• 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.

• How we tested desktops-as-a-service

  By Tom Henderson | 21 May, 2012 14:29

  We noted the customer intake procedures for each of the five DaaS vendors, focusing on what options and what type of process were used. We set a platform consisting of several Windows 7 virtual machines, as well as a Lenovo T520 running native Windows 7, another T520 running Linux Mint 2, and three MacBooks running Mac OS 5, 6, and 7 respectively, as well as an Apple iPad running iOS 5.

• 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."

• Pure Storage's next-generation flash array offers high-availability option

  By Lucas Mearian | 17 May, 2012 07:44

  Flash array start-up Pure Storage, whose marketing pitch is selling flash at the price of enterprise disk, today announced the second generation of its all-flash array that now includes a highly-availability (HA) configuration.

• 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.

• 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.