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Worldwide, 54 percent of large enterprises rate management of their virtual server environment as a critical or high IT priority, yet only 45 percent think their companies are doing an effective job ...

VMware acquires virtual management and IT process orchestration vendor Dunes Technologies at its VMworld conference. VMware Tuesday announced it had snapped-up Dunes Technologies, a start-up ...

During Microsoft Management Summit 2008, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft, outlined the company's dynamic datacenter strategy. Part of Microsoft's ...

Software firm Tripwire has launched vWire, a VMware management tool designed to reduce downtime in virtualized environments by allowing administrators to monitor configurations and correlate data. The ...

Management’s importance will increase coincident with the growing competitiveness of non-VMware hypervisors, especially Microsoft’s Hyper-V, industry watchers agree. “In coming years, Microsoft will ...

Strong demand for server virtualization management software is set to raise revenues for global virtualization software by 43 percent to hit US$2.7 billion this year, according to Gartner. In its ...

In a bid to erase distinctions between on-premises and cloud infrastructure VMware Inc. today introduced extensions to its vSphere virtualization platform and vSAN storage virtualization software that ...

The sprawl of management consoles, the proliferation of data they provide and the rising use of virtualization are adding challenges to corporations looking to more effectively manage mixed Linux, ...

EMC will resell virtualization management software from VMware alongside its own Ionix management platform in an expanded partnership aimed at helping enterprises build private clouds. The combination ...

VMware Tuesday continued its Horizon desktop virtualization offensive by acquiring Immidio, maker of a Windows desktop virtualization management software product. Immidio's Windows based Flex + ...

You wouldn't race down the motorway the day after you've passed your driving exam. You need to mature: learn the basics, build up your experience, and plan ahead. Virtualization is no different.