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VMTurbo 'invisible hand' control freak grabs more virty servers

Economic engine to be applied to networks, storage, and public clouds
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'Let anyone be administrator' bug in VMware snapped shut

Party's over, back to be being a normal Windows user for you
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VMware adds EMC daddy's deduping backup to vSphere

VMware is embedding EMC's Avamar deduplicating backup software into ESXi with the vSphere Data Protection product, making VMware seem more like EMC's baby than an open child.
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Speaking in Tech: VMware vNerds drop it like it's hot – LIVE

Podcast Podcast Today we bring you a special live episode of our enterprise and consumer tech-cast, hosted by The Dude of enterprise tech, Greg Knieriemen, and cloud and storage master Ed Saipetch. Live from VMworld, they crash HP's customer appreciation reception. Today's special guests include: Brady Wilson, CTO of Opus …

How to wrestle storage in virtual server bear pits

Deep Dive Server virtualisation is no longer just a topic for server admins; it also affects the management of storage and networking equipment. And the introduction of server virtualisation means that all of a sudden server operations people have to learn how to deal with storage.

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Paul Maritz VMworld keynote

EMC mashes up big data, clouds, coders into SECRET crack team

Keeps schtum on mystery Pivotal Initiative
VMware's monster VM

VMware ships embiggened vCloud Suite after price brouhaha

Discount chop looms; how many dollars per socket?
A storm is brewing (Mali, Sahel). Foto: F. Guichard & L. Kergoat, AMMA project, CNRS copyright.

AWS fattens EC2 cloud for big data, in-memory munching

re:Invent Data Pipeline service links data sources, automates chewing and spitting

Red Hat takes OpenShift platform cloud private

'If you can run RHEL, you're good'
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Network giants want software-defined network standards

Virtual networks coming to mobile and metro networks … and beyond!
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Big Switch uncloaks, fires virty network wares at VMware/Nicira

'Our OpenFlow is more open than your OpenFlow'
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VMware wants to play 'Server Tetris' in your data centre

VMware chief technology officer Steve Herrod wants to play Tetris with your data centre, in the hope that if he can get your workloads lined up just right some of your costs will disappear.
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Boffins foul VM sandboxes with CPU-sniffing hack

So much for your sandbox US researchers at RSA, the University of Wisconsin and the University of North Carolina have used a malicious virtual machine to extract a cryptographic key from another virtual machine running on the same hardware.
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Stratus load balances virty machines across Avance clusters

On the heels of its acquisition of high-availability server maker Marathon Technologies at the end of September and the revamping of its ftServer fault tolerant servers earlier that month, Stratus Technologies is tweaking its Avance clustering software for server hypervisors and their virtual machines to allow load balancing across clusters.