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VMware: Dell's purchase and the spoils of war
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2015-11-03 00:27
Many, including HP CEO Meg Whitman, have predicted chaos for Dell as it integrates EMC into its current offerings. Some have gone so far as to say that Dell will destroy VMware. I don't believe that Dell will destroy VMware, nor do I think that Dell will extract all the profit out of it to fund Dell's dreams. I also don't believe that Dell's ownership of VMware will send the masses running toward Microsoft for Hyper-V salvation. I get the distinct impression that VMware will stand as a separate entity, with its own leadership, as it has from the beginning.
Google and VMware team with Nvidia to bring workstation graphics to Chromebooks
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-08-28 00:26
Google and VMWare have teamed up with Nvidia to bring virtual desktops and workstation grade graphics to Google Chromebooks.
The project uses the next generation of VMware's Blast and Nvidia's Grid virtual GPU technology to offer cutomers high power performance from the safety of a Google Chromebook.
VMware Blast is the firm's protocol for delivering a Windows desktop over a virtualised environment to serve up a remote desktop using HTML5, while Nvidia's Grid virtualises the GPU and data centre to provide graphical acceleration.
VMware and Google announce Windows applications for Chrome OS
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2014-02-14 05:53
VMware is teaming up with Google to bring Windows applications to Chrome OS machines.
The system will use VMware's Blast HTML5 technology to virtualise a Windows environment under Chrome OS.
With the rise in sales for the Google based operating system (OS), there has arisen a need to find a way to run traditional systems in a Chrome environment, and this represents an opportunity for enterprise users who are still tied to Windows XP, which is into its final two months of service life, to continue more or less uninterrupted without having to fear the threat of malware.
VMware buys mobile security startup Airwatch to bolster product offering
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2014-01-23 07:54
VMware will buy mobile management and security startup outfit Airwatch for $1.54bn, or about £930m.
The firm announced today that the deal has been approved by both companies' boards and is forecast to close by the end of this quarter.
The deal will see VMware, which also announced estimated revenue of $1.48bn for the fourth quarter of 2013, pay $1.175bn in cash and $365m in installment payments. Airwatch has nine offices worldwide with a workforce of 1,600 people and lists over 10,000 global customers.
VMware one-ups Microsoft with vSphere 5.1
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-01-15 03:00
The race for virtualization dominance between Microsoft and VMware has become more interesting with VMware's recent release of vSphere 5.1. We obtained vSphere around the same moment as the final release of Windows Server 2012, whose newly included virtual switch and enhanced Hyper-V features were designed to clobber VMware.
But back in the garages of their digital "brickyard", VMware was scheming to one-up the one-ups.
