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.
Amazon Web Services' management console is bait for VMware customers to move virtual machines to the public cloud. VMware's bet is hybrid datacenters win.
VMware will roll out a product family dubbed vCenter to automate data center tasks and manage to service level agreements.
The company, formerly known as Diskeeper, is aiming to derive 30 percent of its revenue from V-Locity 4.
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VMware has partnered with Cisco's biggest rivals to spread its NSX virtualized networking platform around data centers.
Lenovo will include VMware's vSphere with Operations Management software and sell it directly through partners.
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Unless Oracle takes away the Exalogic capacity you spent a few million dollars for and gives you your money back, the true cloud elasticity of the Exalogic box is a bit fuzzy.
It's unclear whether Citrix can continue to grow its virtualized desktop licenses when the Windows 7 corporate upgrade cycle is near the finish line.