Castro continued: "In Cuba we provide free health care, free food coupons, free housing and if we had any computers on the island, we would provide free laptops and Internet too. So, I agree with Richard Stallman that Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and all American companies pushing this new ...

Lanamark has announced the general availability and product packaging for its flagship software solution, Lanamark Suite. The company also launched its global solution provider program that will help value-added resellers, system integrators and consultants accelerate delivery of virtu...

Larry Ellison recently unleashed a tub-thumping tirade against cloud computing covered by Ben Worthen (with further comments from Daya Baran, Giva Perry and Dan Farber) . Here is a quote from Larry: The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to ...

Data virtualization’s ability to overcome hardware and software complexity provides enterprises with an excellent opportunity to improve IT agility and save significantly. As more enterprises seek these benefits, data virtualization is swiftly moving from new idea to the mainstream. ...

VMware announced the general availability of VMware Workstation 6.5. VMware Workstation, the desktop virtualization product, has new features, including the ability to seamlessly toggle between windows on different virtual machines, support for Direct X 3D graphics and new debugging to...

"The server virtualization market is red hot and gaining rapid adoption as organizations strive to achieve physical server consolidation, maximize resource utilization and deploy disaster recovery solutions," said Mark Bowker, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Open-E has ann...

Xkoto, the database virtualizer, fielded a Gridscale for Microsoft SQL Server virtualization product today that it says improves application performance, scalability and reliability in SQL Server environments. The active-active widgetry virtualizes the database infrastructure and distr...

In an interview published by The Guardian on Monday, Richard Stallman says "The concept of using web-based programs like Google's Gmail is "worse than stupidity. Cloud Computing - where IT power is delivered over the internet as you need it, rather than drawn from a desktop computer �...

3PAR announced that it has further strengthened its presence across EMEA through a new channel partnership with storage systems integrator Databasement. Databasement delivers replication and restoration solutions to medium- and large-size organisations across the Netherlands, Belgium, ...

Virtualization has quickly become a staple new concept for enterprise IT. At SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, June 23-24, we had exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not only of how virtualization ma...

Open Source. Open Standards. Open Collaboration. For the past 15 years, Linux has served as the benchmark of a successful global open source project. The impact has been far reaching: today it powers the Internet, a significant portion of the datacenter, is the emerging market choice f...

Tripwire helps over 6,000 enterprises worldwide reduce security risk, attain compliance and increase operational efficiency across virtual and physical environments. With its industry-leading configuration assessment and change auditing software solutions, IT organizations achieve and ...

Two-year-old venture-backed Skytap Inc, a University of Washington cloud infrastructure spin-out, says it’s got an API to enable “hybrid” clouds. Rather than use cloud computing in a silo, Skytap’s Web Services API and one-click VPN functionality create a situation where cloud ...

. Businesses are consolidating their sprawl of underutilized Windows, Linux and Solaris systems, reaping the benefits of saving precious space and energy. Data center infrastructure capital costs are almost equal to the annualized costs of purchasing and operating IT hardware1 and virt...

"Storage is a critical part of a virtualization solution, and Xiotech's comprehensive capabilities deliver a single pane of glass view into a virtual infrastructure," said Chris Taylor, executive vice president/co-founder at Xcedex as Xiotech entered into an alliance with Xcedex. Under...

It's a story that is all-too-familiar across organizations today. Rising electricity costs, shrinking power supplies, and mounting social and economic pressure to be "green" are forcing organizations across the globe to rethink their IT strategies. For an increasing number of organizat...

Egenera continued momentum in Asia Pacific with the addition of new customers across a variety of regions and sectors. Egenera makes every data center a reliable dynamic data center through its integrated enterprise data center solutions, powerful PAN Manager software and professional ...

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the ...

Now iPhone users can run MokaFive LivePC virtual machines off their iPhone! iPhone Sentinel makes the iPhone appear as a disk drive on the user's computer, allowing them to install any software they want on it. It also includes the features of USB Sentinel.

While the American economy dangles by a thread over a lake of molten lava, the American corporation keeps chugging along. Red Hat says it has no material exposure to the debacle and that September has been no different than the beginning of any other quarter. Its pipeline is reportedly...

Join Microsoft General Manager Mike Neil for this "Virtualization Futures" keynote as he shares his thoughts on the state of IT computing and tomorrow’s trends, and how Microsoft is helping to transform the traditional desktop and datacenter. Mike will discuss directions for Microsof...

Citrix took its virtualization widgetry, repackaged it, and went into the cloud business Monday, announcing a new Citrix Cloud Center (C3) product family targeted at the would-be hosted cloud services that are chasing both consumers and enterprise data centers. C3 is supposed to be a c...

Fortisphere announced that its Virtual Essentials product suite has achieved "Certified for Windows Server 2008" status and will support Hyper-V, Microsoft's next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology. Designed for line-of-business and mission-critical applicatio...

Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid com...

Cloud Computing, in its current incarnation, falls short on its promise to make computing as a whole as simple as plugging an application into a utility service. Kirill Sheynkman, Founder & CEO of Elastra Corporation, will be giving a session on Elastic Computing vs. Cloud Computing at...

SAVVIS announced a business alliance with virtualization and automation software provider, Parallels. The alliance enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to convert their single-tenancy applications to operate in a Software as a Service (SaaS) environment without having to re-arch...

Composite Software announced its Composite Information Server has been certified for interoperability with the HP Neoview enterprise data warehouse platform. Composite Software is also part of the HP Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP), a worldwide alliance program providing ac...

VMware’s Workstation 6.5, its desktop virtualization widgetry, hit general availability Monday. The latest upgrade of the nine-year-old software, VMware’s original product, can be used to toggle between windows on different virtual machines and debug multi-tier applications while p...

Wall Street firms, banks and insurers are the single biggest consumers of IT and the IDC-owned Financial Insights research firm calculates that IT budgets for hardware software and service recoiled almost 6% this week because of the Lehman bankruptcy and the eleventh-hour Merrill Lynch...

Cloud computing is changing the ground rules for startup companies – both in their infrastructure choices and in the bar for technology development prior to funding. In a breakout session at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo, Lars Leckie - a Principal at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners ...

Oracle’s 11g Database, Fusion Middleware and Enterprise Manager now support Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Oracle said Monday that customers can use their existing software licenses on EC2 for no additional fees as well as a set of free Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to provis...

The future model for providing IT infrastructure and services in large organizations is what many today are calling "Cloud Computing" - a concept popularized by Amazon through its web services efforts. Merrill Lynch analysts for example reckon that by 2011 the volume of Cloud Computing...

Join Scott Guthrie as he discusses Microsoft’s commitment to web standards development, Rich Internet Applications and how Microsoft is contributing to help move the web forward. Join Adobe’s Kevin Lynch as he demonstrates how Flash and HTML come together to make the most engaging,...

VMware is collecting protocols. Last week it made Teradici’s day and announced that it had licensed the software implementation of the Canadian start-up’s PC-over-IP display protocol technology as a key piece of its so-called PC-replacing vClient initiative.

Virtualization player 3Leaf Systems has gotten a $35 million C round from LSI with follow-on investments from Intel, Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital and Storm Ventures. The money is earmarked for accelerating the development of the company’s enterprise virtualizat...

SYS-CON Events announced today that the Cloud on Wall Street Conference & Expo will take place on March 22-24, 2009, in New York City. The event is expected to attract over 1,000 decision makers, developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe who will b...

IBM, the company that invented virtualization back in the mainframe’s Pleistocene period, claims it’s made a breakthrough that will accelerate the spread of the virtual desktop by slashing VDI storage requirements by as much as 80%. The widgetry is supposed to encourage users to mo...

Global Knowledge announced a worldwide partnership that will allow the company to apply its strengths as an education solutions provider in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, by offering virtualization training on VMware. Virtualization training is a growing requirement for IT...

Alternative Technology announced that they will distribute Oracle VM software and sell Oracle VM server virtualization support for both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Alternative Technology will leverage its North American channel, education and technical resources to expand the r...

“We are beginning to see significant interest from our customers who are ready to take advantage of new virtualization technologies,” said Urvish Vashi, general manager of dedicated servers at The Planet. “Many companies are looking to better utilize their server assets, which ha...