VMware buys app performance vendor, sets up shop in Israel
VMware has agreed to acquire B-hive Networks, an application performance management software vendor, the company announced Wednesday.
Stories by Jon Brodkin
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Customers frustrated over Microsoft virtualization licensing
For all the flexibility server virtualization affords today's IT departments, there's one type of flexibility IT managers would love to have but aren't likely to get: the ability to save money on Microsoft software licenses. Even when carving a physical server into multiple virtual machines, customers using virtualization probably won't find any way to circumvent the licensing terms set by Microsoft for software running on virtual machines, Forrester analyst Christopher Voce said at Forrester's IT Forum last week.
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Microsoft a distant third in mock debate on virtualization
VMware's going to win the virtualization battle, and Microsoft won't even be its nearest competitor.
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10 things heard and seen at EMC World
EMC held its huge annual show for customers, analysts and reporters this week. Here are 10 things we learned.
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EMC adds to backup portfolio, intros power-saving technology
EMC unveiled new products and features for data backup at EMC World in Las Vegas this week, including data de-duplication upgrades and a new "spin down" technology that automatically puts idle disk drives into sleep mode.
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5 questions to ask your potential storage cloud provider
What security measures do you offer?
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Can you trust your data to storage cloud providers?
Michael Witz, founder of online file-sharing site FreeDrive, knows the horror of that proverbial middle-of-the-night call: "The site is down."
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EMC predicts lower flash storage prices within a few years
EMC executives predict flash storage technology will be nearly as inexpensive as high-end disk drives within two years. Most disk drives will continue to offer lower prices than flash, though, ensuring a long life for disk technology, it said.
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SQL injections: What they are, how to stop them
SQL injection experiences.
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SQL injection attack in 'third wave,' says IBM
A SQL injection attack that has affected at least a half-million Web sites has entered a "third wave" that's more resistant than previous versions to traditional security measures, according to IBM security researchers.
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Evolution of Internet powers massive particle physics grid
If you're a fan of particle physics (and really, aren't we all?), by now you know scientists are on the verge of opening the Large Hadron Collider, which will use ultra-powerful magnets to race proton beams around a 17-mile circular underground tunnel and smash them into each other 40 million times a second.
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Pythian Group: Oracle customers slow to adopt new database
Few Oracle customers are using the latest database software unveiled amid much hoopla last July, according to an analysis of the Pythian Group's remote database support customers.
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Icy encryption tool protects laptops from "cold boot" attack, vendor says
The vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers with a laptop security product announced Tuesday.
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VMware tackles management, disaster recovery
VMware is releasing two bundles of management and automation products designed to streamline disaster recovery and curb virtual server sprawl.
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Water-cooled servers gaining steam
When the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications set out to build a machine with more than 200,000 server cores, the key wasn't simply shelling out cash for newer, faster silicon chips. The trick was harnessing the power of a substance that comes right out of your kitchen sink: water.
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