At the VMware Partner Exchange on Tuesday, Atlantis Computing and Trend Micro Incorporated announced the release of the first VMware View 5 reference architecture for 1,000 persistent and non-persistent desktops. The groundbreaking new reference architectures were developed by Atlantis Computing and Trend Micro with guidance from VMware and is the first to incorporate the latest … Continue reading »
Trend Micro Delivers First Agentless Anti-Malware Solution for VMware vSphere Environments
Trend Micro, a long-time security innovator and provider of security and compliance solutions for VMware environments, is the first security vendor to unveil an anti-malware solution that leverages the new VMware vShield Endpoint. VMware vShield Endpoint strengthens security for virtual machines and their hosts while significantly improving performance for virtual machine (VM) protection by offloading … Continue reading »
VMware vSphere 5 Released
VMware has announced the general availability of VMware vSphere 5, their comprehensive virtualization infrastructure platform. “With the release of VMware vSphere 5, VMware is helping customers accelerate their journey toward a more efficient and automated cloud infrastructure,” said Bogomil Balkansky, senior vice president, cloud infrastructure products, VMware. “The enhancements and new innovations we’ve introduced in … Continue reading »
VMware unveils Zimbra Appliance
Today, VMware announced the launch of the Zimbra® Collaboration Suite Appliance, an enterprise-class email and collaboration solution delivered as a virtual appliance. Designed to run on the VMware vSphere™ platform, the Zimbra Appliance helps reduce the cost and complexity of infrastructure management. Advancing Enterprise-Class Collaboration in the Cloud Zimbra Collaboration Suite Appliance is a next … Continue reading »
VMware Acquires Zimbra Messaging
This week, after many rumors and much speculation, VMware officially announced plans to purchase Zimbra from the Yahoo! Corporation. Zimbra is a powerful commercial open source email server application. One of the leading benefits of the Zimbra platform is it’s cross-platform compatibility with Windows, Linux and Mac clients. Notably, it also offers tight integration with … Continue reading »
Cisco, EMC and VMware form Private Cloud Coalition
In an announcement that hasn’t exactly come as a big surprise to the industry, Cisco, EMC and VMware have formed a Coalition to Accelerate Pervasive Virtualization and Private Cloud Infrastructures. The coalition aims to ease adoption of virtual environments and accelerate build-outs of private cloud infrastructures with the announcement of Vblock Infrastructure Packages. Vblock Infrastructure … Continue reading »
VMware Releases VMware Workstation 7
Today VMware has released the latest version of their desktop virtualization platform, VMware Workstation 7. VMware Workstation 7 features advanced capabilities to help developers, QA engineers, technical sales professionals, and IT administrators get up and running faster and streamline tasks that save time and improve productivity. The first desktop virtualization product with Windows Aero support, … Continue reading »
Microsoft Launches Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Today, Microsoft releases updates to both it’s desktop and server operating systems: Windows 7 Windows 7 marks the latest edition of the Microsoft Windows desktop workstation operating system. While its predecessor, Windows Vista, introduced quite a few new features, the Windows 7 release is a more focused, incremental upgrade to the Windows product line, geared … Continue reading »
VMware CapacityIQ: Continuously Manage and Plan Infrastructure Capacity
This Monday, VMware issued the following press release announcing the availability of their new VMware vCenter CapacityIQ product: VMware Delivers New Management Solution for Unprecedented Insight Into Datacenter Capacity – Optimizing for Reduced Waste, Overhead and Risk PALO ALTO, Calif., October 19, 2009 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from … Continue reading »
VMware Announces Release of Site Recovery Manager for vSphere 4
VMware Expands Enterprise Class Automated Disaster Recovery without Cost and Complexity New VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4 Provides Better Protection of Environments with Optimized Control, Expanded Storage Support and Ability to Failover Multiple Sites to One PALO ALTO, Calif., October 5, 2009 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from … Continue reading »