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Top Story - VMware Announces 'Cloud Operating System'

Virtualization market leader VMware has introduced what it is calling the industry's first operating system for building the internal cloud. VMware feels that today with budgetary constraints, most IT departments are struggling with reduced budgets to simply keep the lights on.

 

Top Story - VMware: No 'Timeline' For Release of Delay-Ridden Client Hypervisor

VMware is accustomed to dominating the world of server virtualization, but its attempts to become the de facto virtualization vendor on the desktop haven't gone quite as well.

Top Story - VMware Co-Founder Tackles Virtualization at Cisco

The five visionary tech executives who created VMware and launched the x86 virtualization market have kept low public profiles in recent years, with four leaving VMware as the company gets remade by owner EMC.

Top Story - VMware Backpedals on Price Changes After Customer Criticism

After criticism over new restrictions on the amount of virtual memory customers can deploy before having to buy new licenses, VMware has boosted the limits on virtual RAM so high that most customers should not be negatively affected.

Top Story - VMware Unveils VMware View 4

VMware, the leading player in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, announced VMware View 4, enabling rapid adoption of virtualized desktops and establishing a desktop as a managed service model. VMware View 4 is the industry's only purpose-built desktop virtualization solution.

 

Top Story - VMware Buys Springsource

A move intended to capitalize on the budding cloud application deployment trend will unite virtualization vendor VMware with Java framework developer SpringSource.

Top Story - The Microsoft and VMware Tussle

Microsoft rarely finds itself in second place, but Microsoft's head of server virtualization says he doesn't mind playing catch-up to VMware in the hypervisor market.

Top Story - Sify, VMware Partner to Deliver On-Demand Cloud Solutions

Partnership allows Sify to provide VMware products and create customized hosted infrastructure for customers in a 'pay-as-you-go' model.

Top Story - MS Says Its Private Cloud is Far Cheaper Than VMware's

Microsoft says that with VMware's new VRAM-based pricing, it calculates a private cloud built on Microsoft can cost up to $70,000 less than one built under VMware's licensing schemes.

Top Story - VMware Plows Ahead Amid Controversy, Competition

With another VMworld kicking off next week, host VMware faces controversy and a far more competitive virtualization market than existed when the company began holding the annual conference five years ago.