News

• 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.

• 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.

• Largest Illinois healthcare system uproots Cisco to build $40M private cloud

  By Jim Duffy | 12 May, 2012 00:30

  LAS VEGAS -- A healthcare network in Illinois is investing $40 million in Alcatel-Lucent switches to consolidate data centers into a private cloud.

• 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.

• Citrix boosts VDI offering with products, acquisition and details at cloud-based future

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 11 May, 2012 00:35

  Citrix Systems is upgrading XenDesktop, acquiring Virtual Computer, introducing a new type of hardware-assisted thin client and initiating a cloud project in an effort to make its virtual desktop infrastructure offering more attractive.

• 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.

• Whiptail whips up modularly scalable all-flash storage array

  By Lucas Mearian | 09 May, 2012 02:51

  Solid-state storage array maker Whiptail today announced its first modular, scalable all-flash array with up to 72TB of capacity.

• VMware to offer enterprise application portal

  By Joab Jackson | 02 May, 2012 22:06

  VMware will offer enterprise software that allows employees to access all their desktop Windows applications and online services from a single portal, the company announced Wednesday.

• HCL CEO Vineet Nayar: Outsourcing is dead, and there's nothing innovative in cloud technology

  By John Gallant | 01 May, 2012 02:29

  The customer always comes first. Except when it comes to HCL, the $6 billion Indian outsourcing -- make that co-sourcing -- giant led by CEO Vineet Nayar, who literally wrote the book on a philosophy known as 'employees first, customer second.' In this latest installment of our CEO Interview Series, Nayar spoke with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant about how that philosophy is fueling HCL's rapid growth and why more CIOs ought to consider adopting it. Nayar also discussed how HCL has set its sights beyond competing with other Indian outsourcers like Infosys and Wipro and is squarely targeting what he believes are the many unhappy customers of services giants like IBM, Accenture and CSC. The outspoken Nayar took shots at the 'fear psychosis' created by services firms in trying to peddle their offerings and used a barnyard epithet to describe public cloud computing, which he claims isn't ready for prime time. He also outlined HCL's aggressive plans for hiring locally in the U.S. and Europe, and defended the company's use of the controversial H-1B visa program. In addition, Nayar talked about the new goals for IT departments in 2012 and beyond, and explained why treating mobile as a technology 'misses the point.'

• Opinion: CIOs' Cloud strategy must include public Cloud

  By Bernard Golden | 27 April, 2012 02:58

  Over the past year, I've noticed a significant shift in my conversations about cloud with senior IT managers.

• SMB Adoption Of Virtualization to Outpace Enterprises: Survey

  By Computerworld India staff | 26 April, 2012 23:50

  According to a recent survey conducted by disaster recovery and data protection solutions provider Acronis, small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) around the world are planning to adopt server virtualization in 2012 at a faster pace than large enterprises. However, the survey also identified widespread backup and disaster recovery shortcomings for virtual servers amongst SMBs. Meanwhile, previous enthusiasm for cloud infrastructure has, at least so far, failed to turn into reality.

• VMware downplays leaks of source code

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 26 April, 2012 08:17

  Virtualization software vendor VMware today downplayed the seriousness of a source code leak involving the company's ESX hypervisor technology.

• Users find Microsoft System Center 2012 simplifies virtual systems management duties

  By Tim Greene | 25 April, 2012 03:30

  Switching from VMware to Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization environment is saving money for two businesses that are also using Microsoft's System Center 2012 to manage and monitor applications and the infrastructure that supports them.

• Vyatta speeds up its software-based routing with vPlane

  By Stephen Lawson | 18 April, 2012 07:27

  Virtualized router pioneer Vyatta plans to increase the performance of its software by 10 times or more later this year, eyeing large data centers with virtualized multicore servers.

• Virtualization performance management: Myths and realities

  By Nathanael Iversen, director of technical marketing, Xangati | 17 April, 2012 00:33

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.