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• VMware marks PaaS birthday with open-source management tool

  A new release management and deployment framework known as BOSH was released Wednesday by VMware, one year after the roll-out of its Platform-as-a-Service Cloud Foundry. In an official blog post marking the event, the Cloud Foundry team said that BOSH should make it easier for end-users of the platform to manage production instances of their apps.

• VMware backpedals on price changes after customer criticism

  After criticism over new restrictions on the amount of virtual memory customers can deploy before having to buy new licenses, VMware has boosted the limits on virtual RAM so high that most customers should not be negatively affected.

• In pictures: Six cool features in vSphere 4.1

  VMware's new release of its 'cloud operating system' for virtual machines boasts increased scalability and improvements in management functionality

• VMware View 4 to push VDI as a service

  VMware is looking to big name service providers such as Unisys, CSC, EDS and IBM to drive the adoption of virtual desktop infrastructure in Australia.

• VMware's vSphere brings storage flexibility, greater speed to SaaS provider

  When VMware launched its latest virtualization platform, vSphere, it introduced the phrase "cloud operating system" to the IT industry.

• VMware pulls trigger on vSphere 'cloud OS'

  After eight months of hype VMware has finally delivered the update to its core virtualization platform, announcing Thursday that vSphere 4 is generally available worldwide.

• Microsoft infrastructure stack takes to the clouds

  Six months after launching its Azure cloud OS, Microsoft is using the same cloud terminology to describe its stack of data center infrastructure software.

• VMware, ISVs Square Off on Fault Tolerance

  Among the consequences of VMware's battery of vSphere 4 announcements Tuesday about its new virtualization infrastructure and add-on components, third-party software vendors specializing in fault-tolerance and high-availability are feeling new pressure now that VMware has added basic versions of those functions to its core product.
  

• VMware vows to overhaul data center with 'cloud OS'

  VMware has unveiled vSphere, the long awaited overhaul of its core virtualization platform which is designed to aggregate the virtual resources in the data center into one centrally managed computing pool.

• VMware's version of flexibility lacks Microsoft Hyper-V

  VMware promises new levels of flexibility in the data center with vSphere, its cloud operating system, but is still promoting vendor lock-in by refusing to support competing virtualization products.

• Virtualization is 'the new mainframe,' VMware says

  VMware launched an upgrade to its core software platform on Tuesday with the message that virtualization is ready to run any class of enterprise application, no matter how large.

• Financial crisis challenging CIOs: VMware

  The global financial crisis is causing CIOs to jump through more hoops than ever to get their IT projects approved, according to VMware’s APAC managing director Paul Harapin.