Amy Newman

Ah, surveys. Vendor-sponsored surveys, in particular, are often clouded by an agenda that waves a virtual “Caution Flag” over the results. But it’s summer and everyone seems to be on vacation or gearing up for next month’s VMworld, and there’s something satisfying about crunching through a survey. It quantifies the fuzzy in the best of […]

Power-savings is a big driver when it comes to getting enterprises to virtualize. But what happens after you go virtual? How do you know your servers really are running efficiently? Virtual Iron is going live with what it believes is the solution. VMware and Microsoft have grabbed most of the headlines this summer. It’s been […]

It’s not difficult to be nostalgic for LinuxWorld’s of yore. The show was once home to myriad announcements and filled with movers and shakers. For East Coasters it was a not-to-be-missed event, and every winter the faithful made the pilgrimage to the Javits Center. Those on the West Coast got their chance to hobnob in […]

My husband works in the finance department of a large U.K.-based bank. Like most finance professionals, his eyes glaze over when back-end tech specs enter the discussion. Compliance issues pique his interest, but aside from that, he expects an application to “just work.” The fact that virtually everything in his organization, save applications, lives on […]

It’s always good to have data to back up a hunch: A recent IDC survey of 650 European companies taken between January and March of this year reported that 90 percent of companies that have adopted virtualization technologies did so to reduce data center costs. So saving money is the key driver, not saving the […]

Get the champagne out of the cooler, rev up the servers, Hyper-V has arrived. If you didn’t break out in jubilation from the news, take heart. The general response from this vantage point was muted. So muted in fact, that perhaps the only element of surprise was the timing: Hyper-V was made available a whopping […]

The battle for the virtual desktop rages on. Quest Software and Parallels today revealed plans to offers its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) bundle, which is designed to deliver a centralized Windows desktop deployment and management platform. Parallels is on a roll these days. Last week, it stamped its Parallels Server gold. The hypervisor-based server virtualization […]

Sun used to be an easy target for snark and editorializing. Many a column was written about how its management seemed cocky and clueless, and the company seemed to stuck in the glory days mindset suitable to pre-Internet-Bust days. Times have changed, and those days are over. Although Sun’s understanding of open source seems clear […]

The big news out of Palo Alto this week is HP’s intention to acquire EDS. The $13.9 billion offer on the table pretty much obliviates anything else. Understandably lost in the hypnotic haze of nine zeros are the five nines of new products. Back in March, HP previewed HP Insight Dynamics – VSE (ID-VSE) at […]

There’s no denying that it’s good to be VMware these days. Sure, Microsoft’s Hyper-V is coming ever closer to nipping its heels, but profits are up and partnerships are increasing. Last week, the virtualization kingpin announced earnings. After a disappointing end to 2007, first-quarter 2008 had close to 70 percent revenue growth compared to the […]