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• 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 marks PaaS birthday with open-source management tool

  By Jon Gold | 13 April, 2012 03:46

  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.

• Anittel gains VMware vCloud status

  By Julia Talevski | 12 September, 2011 12:32

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

• ZettaGrid attains VMware vCloud Powered status

  By Patrick Budmar | 19 August, 2011 15:43

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

• Acronis entices the channel with new VMware-focused campaign

  By Patrick Budmar | 07 July, 2011 15:25

  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.

• VMware introduces new strategy and products for virtualisation management

  By Spandas Lui | 08 March, 2011 19:01

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

• VMware's vSphere brings storage flexibility, greater speed to SaaS provider

  By Jon Brodkin | 17 June, 2009 08:03

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

• VMware pulls trigger on vSphere 'cloud OS'

  By James Niccolai | 22 May, 2009 03:04

  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.

• Microsoft infrastructure stack takes to the clouds

  By John Fontana | 30 April, 2009 08:05

  Six months after launching its Azure cloud OS, Microsoft is using the same cloud terminology to describe its stack of data center infrastructure software.

• VMware, ISVs Square Off on Fault Tolerance

  By Kevin Fogarty | 23 April, 2009 09:09

  Among the consequences of VMware's battery of vSphere 4 announcements Tuesday about its new virtualization infrastructure and add-on components, third-party software vendors specializing in fault-tolerance and high-availability are feeling new pressure now that VMware has added basic versions of those functions to its core product.
  

• VMware vows to overhaul data center with 'cloud OS'

  By Jon Brodkin | 22 April, 2009 11:35

  VMware has unveiled vSphere, the long awaited overhaul of its core virtualization platform which is designed to aggregate the virtual resources in the data center into one centrally managed computing pool.

• VMware's version of flexibility lacks Microsoft Hyper-V

  By Jon Brodkin | 22 April, 2009 08:35

  VMware promises new levels of flexibility in the data center with vSphere, its cloud operating system, but is still promoting vendor lock-in by refusing to support competing virtualization products.

• Virtualization is 'the new mainframe,' VMware says

  By James Niccolai | 22 April, 2009 05:54

  VMware launched an upgrade to its core software platform on Tuesday with the message that virtualization is ready to run any class of enterprise application, no matter how large.

• Financial crisis challenging CIOs: VMware

  By Tim Lohman | 21 April, 2009 16:35

  The global financial crisis is causing CIOs to jump through more hoops than ever to get their IT projects approved, according to VMware’s APAC managing director Paul Harapin.