Major virtualisation companies are co-operating to bring some simplicity to the world of their mutual interest, the format used to save virtual machine images to disk.
Adelaide-based Web hosting company Hostworks is ramping up its investment in server virtualisation after re-signing its biggest customer, NineMSN, for a further three to six years.
Storage specialist EMC announced plans Monday in the U.S. to acquire VMware, a start-up that sells software to make servers more flexible, for about US$635 million in cash.
Auckland-based Mainfreight will undertake three major IT projects, including the building of a "greenfield" datacentre and the migration of SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005, in the first half of the year.
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Hewlett-Packard buried the hatchet on a long-standing patent dispute with EMC early this month, agreeing to pay $325 million to settle the case.
The company says its server software has now been tested for compatibility with products from firms such as EMC, Siemens, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
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IBM's head of virtualisation is on a mission to spread the word about a technology that is reshaping the structure of IT around the world.
Software giant Microsoft and start-up VMware are bringing closer to mainstream use a technology for running multiple instances of an operating system on a single Intel-based computer.
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