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  IN PICTURES: VMware Partner Exchange 2013
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  IN PICTURES: VMware hosts vForum in Sydney (58 photos)
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• Public cloud shakeup: VMware in, Dell out, and OpenStack in limbo?

  By Brandon Butler | 24 May, 2013 18:12

  It's been a busy week in the cloud. Dell ditched plans to build its own cloud and instead will work with partners, while focusing on private clouds. In an opposite move, VMware revealed its plans for how it will compete in the public cloud market.

• VMware launches network-savvy cloud service

  By Joab Jackson | 21 May, 2013 19:16

  VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud offerings.

• Dell dumps OpenStack and VMware for public cloud, focuses on private clouds

  By Brandon Butler | 20 May, 2013 22:19

  Dell has dramatically shifted its cloud computing strategy, canceling plans it once had to launch a public cloud service based on the OpenStack open source platform, and discontinuing a VMware-based public cloud it already has on the market.

• How VMware will try to shake up the Cloud market this week

  By Brandon Butler | 20 May, 2013 16:17

  There have been rumors and speculation. There have been whispers and rumblings. But this week VMware is expected to release details about its plans to launch a public Ccloud offering, the central part of its new hybrid Cloud strategy.

• SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem

  By Chris Kanaracus | 16 May, 2013 18:35

  Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in both building out HANA's capabilities as well as attracting developers and partners to HANA.

• SunGard brings cloud service to disaster recovery

  By Ellen Messmer | 15 May, 2013 21:57

  Can the old guard in business continuity and disaster-recovery services thrive in an era when the companies are looking at new ways to process business data? SunGard Data Systems, with decades of experience in availability services, is feeling the pinch as some business clientele move data to the cloud. But SunGard says it's pushing forward with innovations that are making it a public cloud provider as well with the kind of application availability it says will be hard to match elsewhere.

• VMware launches dual persona feature for Verizon smart phones

  By Lucas Mearian | 15 May, 2013 12:11

  Through a deal with Verizon, VMware is going to offer the ability for employees to download a app that allows their companies to run a standardized corporate version of Android OS on their phones along side their personal version.

• VMware: Faster app provisioning makes SDN a keeper

  By Joab Jackson | 08 May, 2013 20:33

  Software defined networking (SDN) is generating a lot of buzz these days, but the technology will ultimately make itself useful in the enterprise largely because it will save enterprises time in deploying new applications, predicted Martin Casado, chief architect of networking at VMware.

• 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.

• IT's new concern: The personal Cloud

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 May, 2013 10:14

  As personal and professional Clouds converge, IT's mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher.

• Amazon's biggest competitor in the Cloud: Salesforce.com?

  By Brandon Butler | 04 April, 2013 20:11

  Who is Amazon's biggest competitor in the cloud?

• Does BYOD cost too much?

  By Tom Kaneshige | 20 February, 2013 17:38

  It's a good bet you don't know how much your company is spending on all those bring-your-own-device smartphones and tablets. Even worse, it's probably too much, says a mobility management expert.

• How BYOD saved VMware $US2 million

  By Thor Olavsrud | 01 February, 2013 15:20

  As more companies adopt a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) approach to mobile, many are getting caught by hidden costs. But virtualization titan VMware has bucked that trend. VMware CIO Mark Egan explains how his company accomplished its feat.

• 13 events that defined Cisco's 2012

  By Jim Duffy | 12 December, 2012 17:58

  From software defined networking challenges to killing Cius and corporate restricting moves, it was a busy year for Cisco.

• Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs. Google

  By Brandon Butler | 03 December, 2012 13:14

  It wouldn't be a mischaracterization to equate the cloud computing industry to the wild, wild west.

• Gartner: How big trends in security, mobile, big data and cloud computing will change IT

  By Michael Cooney | 30 October, 2012 14:39

  When you go to a Gartner conference one of he main things you'll notice is the sheer volume of data they can generate on just about any IT topic. Last week's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., was no different. The conference, attended by some 9000 executives focused on the changes security challenges, mobile computing, big data and cloud will be bringing to IT in the near future.

• 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.