RIM announced plans to expand its support for Windows Mobile-based devices with a new software application suite that will enable devices from third-party manufacturers to benefit from the popular BlackBerry software applications and services. RIM plans to begin offering the new softwa...

EMC and VMware a provider of virtualization solutions and an EMC subsidiary, announced that VMware has filed a Form S-1 Registration Statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the initial public offering ('IPO') of Class A Common Stock of VMware.

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, and Passlogix announced an expanded strategic partnership that will result in tighter integration between the RSA SecurID two-factor authentication system and the Passlogix v-GO Sign-On Platform authentication and enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) tech...

AMD pre-announced its March quarter, complaining that revenues had suffered a sharp quarter-over-quarter decline to roughly $1.225 billion, down 8% year-over-year. It blamed lower overall ASPs and 'significantly' lower unit sales, especially in the resale channel, pretty much the same ...

Hitachi is bringing a blade server that it's been selling in Japan since September to the US, claiming it's smaller, lighter, denser and less power-hungry than its IBM and HP rivals. The 6U Xeon quad and dual-core-based BladeSymphony 320 has 10 slots and maxs out at 80 cores per chassi...

Marathon Technologies announced a strategic and technology-based partnership with XenSource. The partnership, which will bring Marathon's fault tolerant-class availability to virtual environments, represents a paradigm shift in the way companies will be able to protect virtualized work...

Intel admitted this week to a having a 'highly parallel IA-based programmable architecture' codenamed Larrabee in its future but it was exceedingly coy with any tangible details like where it sits in the Intel roadmap. But, know this, it's supposed to 'include enhancement to accelerate...

Breaking new ground, Intel has a system-on-a-chip (SoC) project on its 2008 roadmap dubbed Tolapai that by collapsing key system components into a single processor should reduce chip sizes by 45% and power consumption by 20% compared to a standard four-chip design while improving throu...

Intel has introduced what it calls the industry's first 2U 12-drive integrated quad-core storage server that's supposed to enable a new price/performance class for SMBs. The rack-mounted device is built around the quad-core 5300 Xeon and can be configured for NAS, SAN and - given the c...

The Patent & Trademark Office has granted the Public Patent Foundation's formal request to review a patent related to remote computer management held by Opsware, one-time Netscape wunderkind Marc Andreessen's current company. PUBPAT says the patent was pre-empted by the work of open so...

First-quarter PC returns are in and according to Gartner and IDC, Dell's slide continues, HP is still ascendant globally and is severely threatening Dell's primacy in the US, Acer ousted Lenovo from third place globally - or is about to - and Apple can claim 5% of the US market and the...

VMware has introduced a free self-service TCO Calculator to estimate the ROI and savings or potential savings derived from its VMware Infrastructure suite. CA just had a survey done that found users were quite hazy on virtualization ROI.

Once released, the technology called the IBM System p Application Virtual Environment (System p AVE) is designed to open a universe of thousands of x86 Linux applications to the System p platform. The news follows IBM's recent launch of three System p-based Web-tier servers aimed at co...

Centrify, which puts Active Directory-based auditing, access control and identity management on non-Microsoft platforms, has gotten a $15 million third round, bringing its total financing to $36 million. The round was reportedly oversubscribed; the company was only looking for $11 mill...

Intel gave some indication this week of what you can expect from its first 45nm leakage-resisting Hi-k metal gate processors, the Penryn family, a bunch of quad- and dual-cores due out later this year. In desktops figure 15% better performance on image-related application; 25% on 3D re...

Eventually one of the myriad nirvana schemes that the industry produces to dam up server sprawl is gonna click. Maybe this is the one and web farms and data centers will bless its name. FastScale Technology Inc, a baby start-up only 15 months old, has just gone GA with its first produc...

BladeLogic announced the availability of BladeLogic Virtualization Manager, a new software solution to enable seamless management of physical and virtual computing platforms. BladeLogic Virtualization Manager, a new module in the BladeLogic Operations Manager suite of data center autom...

For users wanting a secure, feature rich alternative to Microsoft Windows, Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today the Thursday release of Ubuntu version 7.04. Ubuntu is the award-winning Linux distribution for the desktop, laptop, thin client and server whic...

Citrix Desktop Server is complementary to leading solutions in the desktop virtualization market from companies such as HP and VMware because it provides a comprehensive infrastructure that now enables customers to choose specifically how the desktop is delivered to the end user, regar...

Look like EMC has VMware's upcoming IPO penciled in for late June and that the S1 registration papers should start circulating soon. EMC said in February that it would float 10% of the subsidiary, which could be valued at $10 billion.

SAP Enterprise Learning environment will help enable organizations to more easily conduct, measure and track virtual classes while allowing employees to collaborate in real-time with instructors and other learners. SAP and Adobe also announced that they have entered into a global resel...

Neoware announced that it is continuing to strengthen its Global Channel Program with three new key appointments to its staff. The appointment of Charlie Quinn as Vice President of Channel Business Development, and the additions of Greg Cicio, Director of Channel Business Development; ...

Egenera, Inc., the data center virtualizationcompany, today announced that GXS, a leading provider ofbusiness-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions, has deployed theEgenera® BladeFrame® system to support the newly launched GXS TradingGrid® Ultra infrastructure. GXS Trading Grid facil...

Brocade announced the availability of Brocade Access Gateway for HP BladeSystem offerings. The new feature enables interoperability between Brocade blade SAN switches and products from other SAN switch and director manufacturers, while also improving SAN management and reducing costs.

SGI has changed its CEO again. Dennis McKenna was there for the last 14 months and slashed and burned. Now he's out and retread Bo Ewald, who used to be COO of SGI once upon a time, is in. He's supposed to return SGI to growth and profitability, and push it into HPC. His last berth bef...

Mark Jarvis, the Brit who was at Oracle for 14 years last as chief marketing officer, has been hired in the same capacity by Dell, which has never has chief marketing officer before. Jarvis will be responsible for Dell's branding and communications as well as global marketing, report...

Ounce Labs, the leader insoftware security assurance, and Appistry, the pioneer and leading providerof application fabric software, today announced that Appistry is licensingand deploying Ounce Labs' security assurance software for use on itsAppistry Enterprise Application Fabric (Appi...

Scalent Systems, the leading provider ofserver infrastructure repurposing software for large enterprise datacenters, announced that Kevin Epstein has joined its executive teamas vice president of marketing. Kevin will lead corporate branding and marketing program efforts for Scalent. H...

Cassatt Corporation, an emerging leader in software for automating the management of large, diverse data centers, announced the availability of Cassatt Collage 4.0. This version of Cassatt's flagship product includes new virtual machine and network virtualization control capabilities, ...

Cassatt announced general availability of its Collage Web Automation Module. The software, which supports BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 enables enterprises to manage service-level agreements automatically.

EMC Corporation , the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today reported record first-quarter revenue and strong profit growth. Highlights of the quarter included increased demand for VMware virtual infrastructure solutions and RSA information security software and a...

Hifn(TM), the power behind network and information security, and FalconStor Software, Inc., the market leader in disk-based data protection solutions, announced today the integration of Hifn's Express DR 1000 storage reduction solution with FalconStor's VirtualTape Library based on the...

VMware, Inc., the global leader in software for industry-standard virtualized desktops and servers, today introduced a self-service Web-based TCO Calculator that estimates the return on investment of VMware Infrastructure, the industry's most robust virtualization software suite, and p...

At Storage Networking World, VMware, Inc., the global leader in software for industry- standard virtualized desktops and servers, today announced that it is expanding its hardware certification program to accommodate the numerous vendors interested in certifying their I/O devices, serv...

CA Friday pointed an accusing finger at its retired founder, billionaire Charles Wang, charging him with instigating and institutionalizing the notorious '35-Day Month' that landed CA in a $2.2 billion securities scandal and left Wang's protégé, ousted CA CEO Sanjay Kumar, sentenced to...

IBM's Research Labs say they've figured out a way to embed what they call 'Fort Knox-like' mainframe-like security directly into virtualization and management software that are already deployed inside data centers. They call the stuff sHype (okay, who named this one?) and describe it a...

Internal testing conducted by IBM reveals that the new virtualization product release can host more than 1,000 virtual images on a single copy of z/VM. The new software, which can be used to replace many physical servers with 'virtual' ones running in a single mainframe, helps customer...

Bakbone Software, which claims to support more Linux distributions and applications than any other backup software vendor, says its NetVault Backup and NetVault Replicator now support Red Hat's latest Enterprise Linux 5.0 and that it's the only data protection solution that can say tha...

'As the person who oversees the development plans, teams and strategy for Microsoft?s virtualization software on desktops and servers, I want to update everyone on the timing of our server virtualization offerings. I know that many of our customers and partners will hear of these chang...

LANDesk and Thinstall partnered to provide application virtualization technology. Thinstall's Virtualization Suite has been OEM'ed by LANDesk and under the name LANDesk Application Virtualization. Thinstall Virtualization Suite and LANDesk Management Suite offer ease of use and versati...