Monday, December 28th, 2009
It’s almost time to wave goodbye to 2009. It was an amazing year for ExtraHop. As for the broader world of IT, 2009 was packed with major news stories that will have significant impact, even years down the road. So here’s our recap list, for the biggest IT stories of 2009.
10. The Demise of Nortel [...]
Tags: 3com, acquisitions, acs, cisco vs hp, cloud computing, dell, emc, java, M&A, mysql, nortel, oracle, perot, private cloud, sun, ucs, unified computing system, vblock, vista, vmware, windows 7, xerox
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Came across an interesting survey today on the state of the virtualization market. For the longest time, VMware has enjoy an ironclad lock in this space. That might be changing, according to a survey by a market research firm called TheInfoPro.
Full article here, I pulled out a few factoids that were worth highlighting:
- 75% of [...]
Tags: hyperv, survey, virtualization, virtualization management, vmware
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
VMware made a big splash yesterday with the launch of VSphere, the new “cloud operating system”. The idea is that any enterprise IT department can leverage VSphere to build a private cloud and scale up VMs on-demand, based on business needs. A number of performance improvements were made, supporting impressive numbers like supporting 1 giant [...]
Tags: automated management, cloud, microsoft, oracle, private cloud, sap, sun, vmware, vsphere
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