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IBM, it would appear, have taken a swing at Microsoft’s huge jaw and teamed up with Virtual Bridges and Canonical to offer a Linux-based virtual desktop system. The three organisations announced the general availability (GA) of Virtual Linux Desktop (VLD) as an alternative to Microsoft’s desktop software.

HP has completed its three-year IT shake up, and has saved around $1 billion in costs, thanks to the skills of Randy Mott, Hewlett Packard’s chief information officer. Mott jumped ship from computer manufacturer Dell back in July 2005, just prior to announcing 14,500 job cuts to balance the books. In a bizarre coincidence, IBM also laid-off 14,500 staff to do exactly the same.

Virtualization pioneer, VMware is looking to break in to the mobile market, and create virtual mobile phone technology in a similar way to the company’s server virtualization technology.

With Windows 7 on the horizon, Microsoft has wowed its fans, and heard some pre-release grumbles from its detractors, but they’ve not really talked about the server-side of the coin.

Datatrend Technologies, Inc. introduced a new virtualization appliance that helps clients build an affordable computing infrastructure with high levels of utilization, availability, automation and flexibility using the IBM BladeCenter server.

virtualization has changed everything, for one machine can run a multitude of applications, each isolated into one virtual operating system, completely separated from the others.

VirtualLogix have announced that VirtualLogix VLX - its virtualization software product – will be the first to support Symbian OS, which is the market leading open operating system of advanced data-enabled mobile phones.

To cater for one of the fastest growing parts of the storage marketplace, IBM has announced that its storage virtualization software is to be packaged for SME’s (small-to-medium sized businesses).
The IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) software is designed to improve storage utilization rates, energy efficiency, admin productivity, availability, and scalability of critical applications. [...]

A partnership between Red Hat and Scalent Systems – a provider of real-time Management and Automation software for large data centres – was announced today. The combined solution extends virtualization and data centre automation beyond hypervisors, to bare metal servers, network and storage connectivity.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 provides IT managers with greater flexibility, via [...]

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