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

A new release management and deployment framework known as BOSH was released Wednesday by VMware, one year after the roll-out of its Platform-as-a-Service Cloud Foundry. In an official blog post marking the event, the Cloud Foundry team said that BOSH should make it easier for end-users of the platform to manage production instances of their apps.

Regional ASX-listed reseller, Anittel, has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status and certification for its virtualised cloud infrastructure service.

Cloud service provider, ZettaGrid, has become the first VMware partner in Australia to be awarded the VMware vCloud Powered status.

Disaster recovery and data protection solutions provider, Acronis, has initiated a channel partner campaign to enable its resellers to penetrate the small business virtualisation market.

Virtualisation vendor, VMware, is spruiking a new strategy and a new line of virtualisation management product.

When VMware launched its latest virtualization platform, vSphere, it introduced the phrase "cloud operating system" to the IT industry.

After eight months of hype VMware has finally delivered the update to its core virtualization platform, announcing Thursday that vSphere 4 is generally available worldwide.

Grid vendor Platform Computing has unveiled new private cloud software that aggregates servers, storage, networking tools and hypervisors to create a shared pool of physical and virtual resources.

For all the hype about cloud computing in the enterprise—hype that Gartner believes is now nearing its peak—IT professionals continue to tell cloud-related vendors that the cloud will not be practical until several serious concerns are addressed. VMware, with its vSphere 4 announcement today, is laying the foundation for what it hopes will be a central role for VMware technology in enterprises making use of both public and private cloud computing systems.