Power companies are lining up to offer rebates for customers that use virtualization to cut data center power consumption, says VMware president Diane Greene. Greene, speaking at the UBS Enterprise Technology Forum in New York, said that the Pacific Gas and Electric Company rebate program announced in November was just a start.
VMware has partnered with Cisco's biggest rivals to spread its NSX virtualized networking platform around data centers.
VMware launches Horizon 6, its flagship virtual desktop application, and adds app virtualization. The end result: VMware's approach looks very similar to what Citrix does.
VMware prefers to see OpenStack as a way to sell its software into best-of-breed environments. Do you agree?
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By supplying VMware View for the Kindle Fire, there's a small bet that the device could be used in the enterprise at some point.
VMware's desktop virtualization software is aiming to roll with Windows 8.1 and Apple's OS X Mavericks. Workstation follows suit.
Rackspace launched two offerings to bridge its cloud and hosting businesses and better take advantage of hybrid data centers.
XenDesktop 7 was outlined at Citrix's Synergy confab a few weeks ago. Adding a cloud session option will give Citrix another deployment model for virtual desktops.
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