VMware is in the early stages of embedding its technology in a range of smartphones, enabling them to connect to PCs and run applications that were designed for other mobile phones.
Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley last week criticised virtualisation rival VMware for an idea that could see virtualised operating system images patched while they were still running in memory.
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VMware's chief executive has apologised for the disruption caused by a licensing issue which resulted in the company's latest hypervisors, ESX 3.5 Update 2 and ESXi 3.5 Update 2, not powering on after being turned off.
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ThinApp, previously known as Thinstall, offers a more streamlined and portable approach to new software roll-outs and development. Software developers and administrators of large numbers of workstations and or mobile workers are bound to benefit greatly from this software.
Microsoft's Hyper-V is a solid virtualisation platform that's compatible with a wide range of modern server hardware.
This is a powerful performance monitoring and reporting system for servers running VMware ESX Server. Web-based dashboards show the resources in use by servers and their VMs, while the reporting module delivers printable reports of historical data.
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