closer to reality. It marks the second alliance in two months between VMware and a traditional
vendor.
Last month, VMware partnered with CA, supplier of CA-Unicenter and other systems management software, to integrate VMware Stage Manager with CA's Data Center Automation Manager. The VMware product generates virtual environments that match production settings where new or updated software combinations can be run for test purposes, before deployment. Read the rest of this entry »

You blew it,
.
Or maybe you didn't. But whatever the behind-the-scenes machinations, virtualization toolmaker Transitive is now in
hands. (Big Blue acquired the firm last week for an undisclosed sum, Computerworld reports.)
Transitive should have been yours, VMware. Here's what your team said about the company in a blog post from May, ahead of the digital VMworld.com conference:
Transitive does something quite interesting -- they can dynamically Read the rest of this entry »

As the No. 3 executive at
, Paul Maritz presided over the company's Windows juggernaut, turned aside threats from Netscape and Sun Microsystems, and pressed the company to embrace the Internet. Now, the longtime software executive is looking down Microsoft's barrel from the other end, trying to help his new employer, VMware, triumph where past Microsoft competitors fell short.
In his new role, Maritz is leading VMware's charge in the mounting Read the rest of this entry »

The Palo Alto firm has climbed to success with its virtualization software that allows servers and computers to operate more than one operating system at a time. VMware is expected to announce Monday that it is applying the same approach to mobile phones with its VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform.
The thin layer of software ultimately will be embedded in phones, allowing one device to support two or more operating systems. Imagine a phone that Read the rest of this entry »

,
,
is the global leader in virtualization solutions from
the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to
reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity,
strengthen security and go green. With 2007 revenues of $1.3 billion,
more than 120,000 customers and more than 20,000 partners. VMware is one
of the fastest growing public software companies. Headquartered in Read the rest of this entry »

McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world's
largest dedicated security technology company. It delivers proactive and
proven solutions and services that secure systems and networks around
the world, allowing users to browse and shop the Web securely. With its
unmatched security expertise and commitment to innovation, McAfee
empowers home users, businesses, the public sector and service Read the rest of this entry »

Four short months after Microsoft released its new server virtualization technology, the company is already making significant gains against competitors, and hopes to add to the momentum Tuesday with the release of new virtualization management software to manufacturing.
Microsoft's announcement that it's releasing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 comes on the heels of an analyst report last week by IDC -- underlining how Windows Server's Read the rest of this entry »

CTO Stephen Herrod drew a cheer at the VMworld conference Wednesday by announcing plans to bring the next version of VMware's VirtualCenter management software to Linux and the iPhone.
In a speech opening day two of the VMworld show in Las Vegas, Herrod also described improvements to VMware's core virtual machine technology that should allow businesses to run larger, more demanding applications on virtualized servers.
VirtualCenter Management Read the rest of this entry »

September 17, 2008 12:08 PM PDT
First of all, Mike McCana's criticism of vmware on that VentureCake blog you cite is more than a year old, and since then we the public have a better understanding of the vmkernel architecture. From what we know now, most would conclude that Mike's criticism was probably off-base.
The bulk of Mike's criticism was based on the (highly dubious) claim that if you need Linux to boot-load your code, then your code is Read the rest of this entry »

VMware, Parallels prep new virtualization software
VMware Fusion 2.0 will ship next month and Parallels has released a beta of Parallels Desktop 4.0, both of which enable Windows
apps to run virtually on Mac hardware
VMwareand upstart Parallels are both preparing to release upgrades to their popular software that enable Windows applications
to run virtually on Mac hardware.
VMware Fusion Read the rest of this entry »