Networking Start-Up Nicira Wants to Mess Up Cisco and Juniper’s Business

Watch out Cisco, Juniper and other networking vendors. Your business model is about to get disrupted by Nicira, which is coming out of stealth mode today.
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VMware Q3 Profit More Than Doubled on Wide Growth in Demand

VMware Inc.’s third-quarter earnings more than doubled on demand growth across its products, as the software maker continued to position itself as a provider of key technology for cloud computing.

BlueStacks Ready to Test Its Android-on-Windows Software

The start-up says it is ready with an alpha version of its software, which lets many Android apps run on Windows PCs.
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A Parallels World Where Windows Zips on Macs

Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac runs Windows quickly and smoothly on Apple devices, integrating programs with new features of the Lion version of Mac’s operating system.
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Fusion-io Brings Speedy Flash to Virtual Machines

Fusion-io brings the summer of “flash madness” to virtualized computing environments, and thus to the cloud.
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VMware CEO Paul Maritz Talks About the Cloud Monster, Microsoft and More! (Video)

VMware CEO Paul Maritz has his hands full trying to keep the lead in the hyper-competitive virtualization space, as more and more businesses move into the cloud. He talks about the complexities and the competition with companies like Microsoft, where — irony alert — he was a former top exec and is often mentioned as the best candidate to be its next CEO.
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Competing Against Amazon's Cloud

As more telecommunications carriers launch rivals to Amazon.com’s popular computing-services business, a Silicon Valley start-up is aiming to help them beat the Web giant’s prices by tackling one layer of the computing “stack”—data-storage software.

Think You Can Help AOL Keep Hackers at Bay? Here's the Job for You.

AOL is searching for a new head of IT security. Think you’re up for it? We have the job description.

Parallels Promotes Birger Steen, Former Microsoft VP, to CEO

Parallels, the virtualization software company known best for its desktop product that lets Mac owners run Windows on their machines, says it has promoted Birger Steen, its current president, to the position of CEO.

Microsoft and HP Show Off the Fruits of Their Partnership

One year later, it’s time to see what the world’s biggest software company and the world’s biggest IT company could do with $250 million and a year to collaborate on cloud products.

Google’s Chrome OS: “It Just Works”

Cisco Tops Estimates

VMware Gets a Lift