| VMware denies banning competitors from VMworld
VMware is reassuring the industry that VMworld will remain vendor-neutral, after triggering some concerns with changes to the conference's sponsor and exhibitor agreement. Hot data center jobs: Cloud, virtualization, green
The number of positions needed for efficient operation of data centers has remained strong, continuing to show overall growth even in a down economy. VMware hypervisor still king for enterprise-class workloads, Burton Group says
VMware meets every enterprise-class virtualization requirement, Burton Group says. Citrix is close; Microsoft lags behind. Security and regulatory concerns slow some server virtualization efforts
Some organizations, including Stanford Hospital and Clinics, have prescribed a cautious approach to virtualization, mindful that "there's uncertainty" about what's still seen as a new technology. Q&A: Christopher Crowhurst discusses Thomson Reuters' massive virtualization initiative
Thomson Reuters is in the middle of a massive virtualization effort involving 20,000 physical machines growing at an alarming rate. The company is increasing storage utilization through virtualization and thin provisioning and using the capital expenditure saving from that to pay for its server virtualization project, which overall will reduce its power consumption as well. Hitachi unveils clustering software for high-end storage virtualization controller
Hitachi Data Systems announced new clustering software for its Universal Storage Platform V that will allow data to be migrated between systems witout disruption. VMware invests $20 million in cloud partner Terremark
VMware has invested $20 million in cloud computing partner Terremark, buying up about 5% of the company's stock. May Giveaways
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