VMware, which makes software designed to make server computers more efficient, says its code is compatible with data storage gear from several companies. On Monday, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company ...

Changes to VMware licensing in the wake of the Broadcom acquisition caused many enterprises to reassess their virtualisation platform options. A 2024 survey among 110 VMware customers by US-based ...

Shared storage hardware is commonplace in larger organizations, but smaller ones typically can't justify the expense. But shared storage is required for many core virtualization features, including ...

Channel sources close to VMware say the company is planning to embed a version of EMC's Avamar backup software into its vSphere virtualization and cloud platform, a move that would breach the ...

Carlos Soto is an award-winning reviewer and journalist with 20 years of experience covering technology and business within various sectors and industries. Virtualization software makes up the ...

Data storage firm NetApp Inc. said today it’s expanding its long-standing partnership with the virtualization software giant VMware Inc. The companies announced a trio of new customer-driven ...

Pure Storage seems to be everywhere in its market, and it is continuously pushing boundaries—in a good way. At this week’s VMware Explore event (still known as VMWorld to me) in Las Vegas, the company ...

VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition's thin-provisioning capability allows virtual machines to share disk-space allocation with other virtual machines. Configuring virtual machine instances with thin ...

When VMware launched its latest virtualization platform, vSphere, it introduced the phrase “cloud operating system” to the IT industry. With the prior version, VMware Infrastructure 3.5, it was easy ...

VMware is rounding out its new “software-defined data center” strategy with the acquisition of virtual storage company Virsto Software. “We believe that by extending the benefits of virtualization to ...