| VMWare Smashes $1 billion Quarter | 24 Jan 12 | |||
| Virtualisation behemoth VMWare has surpassed financial predictions to smash the $1 billion barrier in the fourth quarter of 2011. The scale of VMware's virtual server revenue stream now rivals IBM's Power Systems and System z mainframe physical server businesses (individually) and, according the The Register, is roughly the same size as the systems business at Oracle, and larger than the Itanium-based server business at HP. | ||||
| CentOS Supported by Microsoft Hyper-V | 17 May 11 | |||
| Microsoft has added support for another Linux server distribution with its Hyper-V virtualisation software, its latest move to compete better with virtualisation market leader VMware. Customers can now run the CentOS flavour of Linux as a guest operating system in supported Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V environments, Sandy Gupta, general manager for marketing in Microsoft's Open Solutions Group, was due to announce at the Open Source Business Conference. | ||||
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