Linux specialist, VMware has launched a virtual machine (VM) that lets users run Linux and Windows applications on the same platform. The Linux VM is not an emulator, the company said, as it has its own IP number and uses the host to communicate...
Storage specialist EMC has announced plans to acquire VMware, a start-up that sells software to make servers more flexible, for about $635m in cash. VMware opted for an acquisition so it could grow as fast as possible, Greene said in an interview.
VMware and several business partners have begun an initiative called the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance to try to replace individual PCs with virtual machines on a much smaller number of servers.
VMware, the EMC subsidiary that brought virtualisation software to the mainstream, said it expects to raise $741.4m in its initial public stock offering (IPO) - and added that Intel will supply another $218.5m.
It was with a furrowed brow that I read some of the many hundreds of headlines over the last day or so about the floatation of virtualisation specialists VMWare. VMWare is a solid outfit. That word - virtualisation (our Cheat Sheet on the subject...
VMware has some new ideas for tackling an age-old problem for system administrators: how do you keep a computing service available when the server it's running on fails? Replay lets VMware's software log the actions of software running in a...