Hector Ruiz, the ex-AMD CEO who sheparded the so-called "asset lite" strategy into being, will be chairman and give up the chair at AMD. ATIC and AMD will split the board at the joint venture. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year. It covers AMD's two fabs in Germany, pl...

Is your IT Infrastructure holding your business back? Do you need to regain control of the virtual and physical server sprawl that can dominate today’s datacenters? See how you can develop a virtualization strategy that will enable you to transform your datacenter into a cost-effecti...

Cloud computing is changing the ground rules for startup companies – both in their infrastructure choices and in the bar for technology development prior to funding. In a breakout session at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo, Lars Leckie - a Principal at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners ...

Anyone allowing their search engine of choice to filter through Google's googols of bytes of data on the Web relating to "cloud computing" has during 2008 been rewarded with an exponentially increasing number of hits. But who are the companies currently most involved and what are their...

See, AMD is only in the x86 business by virtue of a licensing agreement with Intel going back in one version or another to 1976 and the juiciest parts of that agreement are under strict non-disclosure – and since the details of AMD’s brand new arrangement with the government of Abu...

The promise of better use of resources, lower cost, and potential reduction of both power costs and real estate is a compelling reason to move toward virtualization. But the virtual data center raises some significant new issues in areas of performance, compliance, and security. Organi...

Well, Egenera - which has no market cap at all because it hasn't gone public yet - claims it is. IDC, which coined the term, defines 'Virtualization 2.0' as the next step beyond server virtualization replete with faster provisioning, high availability, disaster recovery, resource balan...

Cloud computing is real. Cloud computing is changing how we in the software world work. But it is not everything to everyone and it is definitely not the second coming that will change how we all interact on the Internet. While I respect Stephen Fry hugely, I find myself a little disap...

In keeping with its tradition of producing the most relevant and timely events for Enterprise IT executives, managers, and engineers SYS-CON Events today announced the latest in its world-beating series of Conferences and Expos, "Green IT Conference and Expo" - an event devoted to the ...

"Cloud computing will take off when companies can utilize data, applications and services from any device and from any location," said Willy Chiu, IBM vice president for high performance on demand solutions, as IBM this week launched a company-wide initiative expanding enterprise compu...

Application virtualization is a technologically elegant solution that isolates applications and reduces conflicts. That's good for IT management and has the additional virtue of being financially alluring. From legacy to enterprise business applications, virtualized deployment eased ma...

Amazon said Wednesday that its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), currently limited to various Unix and Linux operating systems, will start supporting Windows Server and SQL Server sometime this fall, describing it as "one of our most requested features." It's currently running a private bet...

At the end of this month, at its Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft intends to unveil something that CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday referred to as "Windows Cloud." Ballmer explained that "Just like Windows Server looked a lot like Windows but with new properties, new characteri...

This morning I finally got a chance to plan my travel arrangements for Alessandro Perilli's Virtualization Congress, which was supposed to take place next week in London, England. When I went to his website, to my surprise I found out that he had canceled his show. According to the vmb...

Marathon Technologies announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro. Under terms of the agreement, Ingram Micro will offer Marathon's everRun high availability and disaster recovery software to its resellers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Inclu...

The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family offers a combination of high-performance and availability features, virtualization capabilities and advanced provisioning software that makes it ideal to cost-effectively manage large amounts of data in a SAN environment without...

Let me show how I see Cloud (and virtualization as enabling technology) and Grid as complementary technologies that will coexist and cooperate at different levels of abstraction in future infrastructures. I will first clearly state my position about Cloud and Grid, which are complement...

When it comes to choosing a server virtualization technology, functionality, scalability, ease-of-use, packaging and pricing are all important – whether you are a large enterprise with thousands of servers, or a small enterprise with less than 20. Unfortunately, organizations often h...

Cloud computing seems to be the buzzword in IT these days as companies are looking for the next big thing in computing. The IT folks at the leading companies are working hard to roll out these “clouds.” This emerging technology is gaining attention from major research institutions ...

AMD’s first 45nm chip, the Shanghai version of its quad-core Barcelona server processor, is reportedly in full production. The company has reportedly pulled in delivery of two-way and eight-way models from Q1 to any minute now. Shanghai evidently means a 20% improvement over Barcelon...

HP announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks. LeftHand Networks' solutions enable midsize companies and remote offices or branches of large corporations to easily and cost-effectively protect critical business data. HP has agreed to purchase LeftHand N...

Cloud computing is an opportunity for businesses to implement low-cost, low-power and high-efficiency systems to deliver scalable infrastructure. But moving to a cloud infrastructure is not necessarily as nice and clean as the providers would want you to think. With cloud infrastructur...

Embotics has been nominated by the Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice Awards for the Best Virtual Machine (VM) Lifecycle Management award. Embotics' flagship product V-Commander 2.0 is successful at helping enterprises reduce risk and costs by automatically managing and controlling...

Virtualization is a buzzword that is living up to its hype as it takes hold in IT. It has spawned magazine covers, conferences, and analyst reports, and all with good reason. Virtualization allows applications to be deployed in a highly efficient manner. By taking the physical servers ...

Open Source. Open Standards. Open Collaboration. For the past 15 years, Linux has served as the benchmark of a successful global open source project. The impact has been far reaching: today it powers the Internet, a significant portion of the datacenter, is the emerging market choice f...

Castro continued: "In Cuba we provide free health care, free food coupons, free housing and if we had any computers on the island, we would provide free laptops and Internet too. So, I agree with Richard Stallman that Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and all American companies pushing this new ...

Join Scott Guthrie as he discusses Microsoft’s commitment to web standards development, Rich Internet Applications and how Microsoft is contributing to help move the web forward. Join Adobe’s Kevin Lynch as he demonstrates how Flash and HTML come together to make the most engaging,...

Let the games begin. First thing this morning Microsoft said that its standalone Hyper-V Server 2008, the bare metal hypervisor meant to help it wrest leadership of the virtualization market from VMware, would be available today. Anticipating Microsoft’s coming, VMware declared its s...

APC by Schneider Electric and CA have announced a partnership that will provide enterprise customers a fully integrated solution set for assessing and fully optimizing their data center energy consumption. APC will offer assessment services, integration services, and physical layer man...

"Virtualization is an emerging industry," says Mike Neil, Microsoft's GM for Virtualization, in this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Virtualization Journal. "But given the increasing demands on IT and decreasing resources and funding allocated within businesses, customers are ready and lo...

Gone are the days when you could test an interface to a single client/server app and know that you have performance covered. Today's interconnected systems such as fully integrated packaged applications, ESB-based enterprise platforms, and SOA make ensuring high-performance from applic...

SYS-CON Events announced today that the Virtualization on Wall Street Conference & Expo will take place on March 22-24, 2009, in New York City. The event is expected to attract over 1,000 developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe who will be conver...

. Businesses are consolidating their sprawl of underutilized Windows, Linux and Solaris systems, reaping the benefits of saving precious space and energy. Data center infrastructure capital costs are almost equal to the annualized costs of purchasing and operating IT hardware1 and virt...

CA announced the formation of an advisory committee to help its Wall Street customers improve the performance and availability of key business services, lower the cost of delivering services and meet compliance requirements using workload automation technology.

Until recently the primary motivator for deploying server virtualization was consolidation. Server virtualization gave organizations a way of controlling their sprawling physical server environments by letting them run more than one application and one operating system on a single phys...

Being held for the first time at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA, on November 19, 2008, the Cloud Computing Bootcamp will show you how to take advantage of the cloud. Cloud computing is an opportunity for businesses to implement low-cost, low-power and high-efficiency systems to del...

Xiotech announced that it has entered into an alliance with Xcedex. Under the agreement, Xiotech is able to offer Xcedex's proprietary X_Factor Virtualization Readiness Planning (VRP) and Virtualization Readiness Design (VRD) analytics tools to its customers, allowing them to assess th...

rPath announced that SOASTA has selected rPath’s rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform to build and maintain its CloudTest application images for virtualized and bare metal environments. rPath provides SOASTA with end-to-end technology that simplifies the entire range ...

Open-E announced general availability of Data Storage Server (DSS) for VMware ESX 3.5. VMware provides TAP program members with tools to develop products that are complementary to VMware virtualization software and help deliver high-value solutions to joint customers. Data Storage Serv...

As cross-platform virtualization is becoming accepted by CIOs and IT managers as a cost-effective solution for datacenter consolidation, workload replication, scalability, business continuity and legacy application migration, the level of international interest in QuickTransit has grow...