Virtual Machines

Novell Releases PlateSpin Protect 8.1

With PlateSpin Protect 8.1, customers can protect and restore whole workloads, from both physical servers and virtual machines.

HP Launches ProLiant BL495c Virtualisation Blade

The BL495c eliminates performance bottlenecks by accelerating virtual server speed with enhanced memory capacity, solid state drives that use less power and an increased number of Ethernet network connections.

VMware Fusion Helps CERN Physicists Analyse Data

With VMware Fusion, physicists use Macintosh hardware to run Linux-based software, which links to the LHC Computing Grid - a network of more than 150 computing centres with approximately 40,000 CPUs, handling 15 petabytes of new data each year.

Price war: Google cloud is now 40% cheaper than Amazon and Microsoft

Google said it will reduce the price of its Google Cloud Platform by as much as 30 percent.

Microsoft vs Amazon: Virtual servers game intensifies

While Amazon is focusing on compute-intensive applications, Microsoft aims at broader use cases including database servers.

Microsoft Azure cloud updates: Key Vault, Docker, and large virtual machines

Microsoft has announced larger, high-performance virtual machines, a Key Vault for secure storage of customer encryption keys, and availability of Docker images for customers to use on Azure.

Google announces IAAS product Compute Engine

Google has announced Compute Engine, a large scale cloud service based on Google’s existing infrastructure. The announcement came on the second day of