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VMware will visit 150 cities in the United States and Canada with its VMware Express mobile data center to show businesses what its desktop virtualization and cloud computing products can do for them. - VMware is taking its desktop virtualization and cloud computing products on the road. VMware officials ...

The RTO team of 12 employees will be incorporated immediately into VMware and become part of the company's desktop business unit. VMware and RTO had been in a partnership since last fall, when VMware announced at VMworld that it would integrate RTO's Virtual Profiles management tool into its VMware View ...

Cisco and VMware have now teamed up with EMC's sworn enemy, NetApp, to provide similar functionality: new and improved hardware and software for next-generation, unified-protocol data centers that make full use of cloud computing as needed. - Back on Nov. 3, 2009, Cisco Systems, VMware and EMC came ...

VMware reports its revenue increased 18 percent to $608 million in the fourth quarter, substantially above the average analyst forecast of $554 million. The virtualization company also reports profit of 31 cents a share, which beat the average analyst forecast of 26 cents. - Virtualization software maker ...

VMware View 4 uses a specialized transport protocol to squeeze out lag time and significantly increase the number of monitors supported by the virtual desktop. The VMware View 4 platform worked well in eWEEK Labs' tests--delivering full desktop and application functionality to a variety of end-point systems, including thin clients, ...

VMware View 4 pushes virtual desktop delivery with its PCoIP, a new protocol that enables support for multiple high-resolution monitors and responsive end user interaction. - ... ...

Cost-conscious businesses looking to move to the cloud might consider WMware's Go virtualization offering. - Virtualization specialist VMware announced the release of of VMware Go, a Web-based service that helps small to medium-size businesses to virtualize servers and create running virtual machines simply and efficiently. The company positions Go ...

HP and Microsofts announcement of a closer partnership around software and hardware offerings are in line with the trend among other vendors of tightly integrating offerings to bring customers integrated solutions. Cisco, EMC and VMware have such an alliance, and Oracle is integrating its software with Sun hardware. IBM also ...

VMware's acquisition of Zimbra brings the virtualization specialist a step closer to providing a varied set of IT services for its growing number of customers. But can VMware take on Microsoft? - VMware's acquisition of Zimbra brings the virtualization specialist a step closer to providing a varied set of ...

Zimbra brings a highly respected, secure e-mail platform to VMware, similar to what Postini brought Google in a 2007 acquisition (for $625 million). - Virtualization software market leader VMware Jan. 12 announced that it is in the process of acquiring open-source e-mail and collaboration software maker Zimbra from Yahoo. Financial ...

Continuing on its mission to bring greater simplicity to users of its cloud platform, VMware announces its agreement to acquire Zimbra, a provider of e-mail and collaboration software, from Yahoo. - Continuing on its mission to bring greater simplicity to users of its cloud platform, VMware has announced ...

Join eWeek labs for this Up Close and Technical review of VMware Workstation 7. Find out why they believe it still maintains leader position for developer desktop virtualization and adds support for Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system along with Windows XP Mode and complete support for VMware's data center infrastructure ...

A study by TheInfoPro shows that while VMware is still the dominant virtualization technology in the data center, IT professionals are increasingly willing to consider alternatives from Microsoft, Citrix and Red Hat for some workloads. The trend is away from a homogeneous data center to a more heterogeneous one, according ...

Citrix's new options include a Dazzle offering for Windows and Macintosh computers and updated versions of Citrix Receiver for Windows and Mac plus the popular iPhone, BlackBerry and Android mobile devices. - The market battle to stake out stronger positions in the desktop virtualization business appears to be ...

Version 7 of VMware Workstation adeptly virtualizes Windows 7, Windows XP Mode and enterprise VMware platforms. - VMware Workstation 7, the latest version of VMware's desktop virtualization tool, carries on the tradition of providing premium technology for developers and power users. Released in October with a list price of $189, VMware Workstation ...

VMware is rolling out View 4, the latest version of its desktop virtualization offering that leverages the company's vSphere 4 virtualization platform and the strong partnership VMware has with EMC and Cisco Systems. View 4 is designed to let businesses run their desktop virtualization environment as a managed service model, ...

VMware is rolling out the latest version of its desktop virtualization product, View 4, which is built atop the vendors vSphere 4 virtualization platform and benefits from VMwares partnership with Cisco and EMC. VMware officials say View 4 will improve the scalability and user experience in desktop virtualization environments while ...

Parallels introduces Desktop 5 for Mac, a solution for running a virtual PC on a Mac that the company claims is 300 times faster than the previous version. The latest version of Parallels' Mac virtualization software is competing against VMware's Fusion 3. - Parallels makes it easy ...

Red Hat is rolling out its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers platform, which is aimed at heterogeneous server environments and cloud computing deployments. Red Hat officials said the platform which includes a standalone hypervisor and management software offers users better performance at a lower cost than competing products from VMware and ...

The coalition -- along with processor maker Intel -- also announced that it is starting up a new, shared-equity company called Acadia to handle the specifics of marketing the new vBlock systems. vBlocks are preintegrated, preconfigured computing systems consisting of networkware from Cisco, storage/security/system management from EMC, and virtualization software ...