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The System x3750 quad-socket server

Inphi: Don't skimp on memory for those virty servers

LRDIMM versus RDIMM benchmark smackdown
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Microsoft releases VMware-eater

All your VMDKs are belong to Windows Server thanks to free converter
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SUSE updates Linux control freak

Shadowman in a chameleon suit wearing a Red Hat

Opinion

VMware adds EMC daddy's deduping backup to vSphere

VMware is embedding EMC's Avamar deduplicating backup software into ESXi with the vSphere Data Protection product, making VMware seem more like EMC's baby than an open child.

Cisco, Fusion-io's blade lovechild in EMC flash face-off

Blocks and Files Will VCE ship Vblocks - its virtual machine battery farms - with Fusion-io flash cards inside instead of EMC's VFCache memory rival?

News

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VMware rolls up an integrated cloudy control freak

VMworld 2012 How vCloud Suite it is
Four of EMC/XtremIO's Project X all flash arrays

EMC shows off XtremIO's Project X box

VMworld 2012 Enters the million-IOPS club with all-flash array
Block diagram of the vSphere 5.1 virtualization stack

VMware kills vRAM memory tax with vSphere 5.1 server virt

VMworld 2012 Stretching VMs, and taking on Microsoft
Broadcom

Broadcom launches Trident II switch chip

Blasting over 100 10GE ports into the clouds

HyTrust goes ballistic with virty compliance appliance

VMworld 2012 Locks down Vblock clouds
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VMware desktop virt refresh lets you run Windows 8 everywhere

Run Windows 8 inside Windows 8, hey, why not
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SkyTap embeds Cloud Foundry in app dev cloud

The floating application development laboratory called SkyTap is burrowing deeper into the VMware fold and making itself more useful to coders by supporting the Cloud Foundry framework on its eponymous dev and test cloud. The company, funded in part by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is also firing up new templates for SkyTap that allow for n-tier applications running in VMs created for VMware's ESXi hypervisor to be moved more easily between the SkyTap app dev cloud and private infrastructure or other production-grade VMware clouds.
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HotLink extends SuperVisor virty control freak to EC2, CloudStack

HotLink, the startup server virtualization management tool maker that came out of stealth mode a year ago, is reaching out from private clouds into public clouds with a new product called HotLink Hybrid Express.

Spotlight

Prepares for backlash of the backup vendors...
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Podcast The usual suspects at our enterprise tech-cast broadcast from the centre of the action
Blocks and Files Will VBlock partner be forced to line a rival's pockets?
Deep Dive Training server admins into server-and-storage admins
Miracle-cream-slathered tool spurts on 12 April
Deep Dive Big changes: Hole-punching and application data blocks
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'Virtualising performance'... with IOPS to spare
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Analysis 'Everyone short-strokes', admits industry rival