Melbourne IT has emerged as the first Australian organisation to bring VMware's new cloud offering vCloud Express to market in Australia.
Cisco Systems this week said it was looking for Australian customers to trial the beta version of the Nexus 1000V distributed virtual software switch which it developed with VMware and announced earlier today.
IBM has launched a public beta of the AIX 6 operating system, which incorporates a number of major changes including a more complete virtualisation offering.
VMware has made available a public beta of its desktop product that lets Windows operating systems run in a virtualised environment on Mac OS X.
The Victorian Government has flagged plans to centralise purchasing of VMware virtualisation software for a number of agencies into a single sizable contract.
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Despite taking a completely different approach to virtualisation, Virtuozzo Containers can match the best hypervisors on performance while at the same time making virtual workloads quick and easy to deploy and manage.
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