Amy Newman

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. From hardware to hypervisor, high availability is getting a virtual boost. Back […]

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. How much of virtualization’s success boils down to cost savings […]

LIVE From VMworld Virtualizing your environment is more than simply taking a bunch of old servers (possibly laying around since the last Boom in the 1990s), and partitioning them. In most cases it means buying more hardware. Virtually Speaking: Good hardware is a fundamental component of an effective virtualization deployment. Quantifying ROI and other benefits […]

It may not be glossy or nearly as exciting as server virtualization, but storage and a strategy to deal with it is vital to any enterprise. Storage, perhaps in a effort to make it sound more compelling, is now referred to as “data management” or “information management.” Storage vendors may not have been front and […]

Mobile devices are increasingly finding their way in the server room. As ServerWatch columnist Paul Rubens noted last week, from iPhones to BlackBerries, smartphones are penetrating the enterprise. Sometimes they’re sanctioned, but more often than not they’re coming in as rogue devices. In general, having an official policy is critical, and enterprises that learn to […]

With the VMware IPO still top of mind, Citrix Wednesday morning announced plans to acquire XenSource for approximately $500 million in a combination of cash and stock, along with assumption of approximately $107 million in unvested stock options. The corporate entity may be set to be acquired, but its products and open source ideology will […]

As VMware holds its long-awaited IPO and XenEnterprise v4 prepares to ship, it’s hard to tell if the temperature is hotter on the beach or in the virtual ecosystem. As the dog days of August make their appearance, everything seems to slow down and our minds wander to the green pastures, shiny seashores or the […]

XenSource is cozying up with Symantec and VMware is offering up a new measure, while HP attempts to swallow Opsware. By now, the news of HP’s (that’s Hewlett-Packard’s, not Harry Potter’s, for all of you bleary-eyed readers out there) plans to purchase Opsware isn’t nearly as new as it was yesterday. While not virtualizationnews per […]

Marathon Technologies and FastScale Technology take different paths to managing virtualized infrastructures. With virtualization comes more eggs in fewer baskets, so preventing the baskets from dropping becomes increasingly important. ISVs that specialize in high availability products are keenly aware of this. Early this week, solutions from opposite corners entered the race. On Monday, Marathon Technologies […]

Anyone still questioning whether XenEnterprise is ready for their enterprise may have had their mind changed this week with XenSource’s release of version 3.2. Windows users get more Xen. Will uXcomm’s acquisition of Virtugo help deliver a better virtual management Ohm. Key enhancements in this release are 8-way SMP support for both host and guest […]

Among the OEMs climbing aboard AMD’s bus next-generation Opteron bus this week was HP. The vendor added six dual-core Opteron processor powered servers to its ProLiant portfolio. Two of these are rack-optimized servers, and four are server blades. HP added six dual-core Next-Generation Opteron processor powered servers to its ProLiant portfolio this week. All six […]

Sales may have been up, but revenue was still down for the Latin America server market in 2Q03, according to Gartner’s latest set of stats for the region. The IT research firm attributes the growth to strong sales in the IA32 server segment and the revenue decline to sluggish mainframes sales. Sales may have been […]