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

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 5 at 8:59 pm PT

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 Co-Founder Diane Greene Joins Google’s Board

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 12 at 3:02 pm PT

Search giant Google said today it had appointed Diane B. Greene to its board of directors. Greene, 56, is a co-founder of VMWare and took that company public in 2007. She was its CEO and president for 10 years ending 2008, and was executive vice president at EMC, which partially owns VMWare. She also sits on the board of Intuit.

LG Pushes 4G Smartphone Through Verizon: The LG Spectrum

Lauren Goode in News on January 9 at 10:15 am PT

With its Optimus phone, LG has done well at the low end of the smartphone market. Now it’s pushing a high-end 4G smartphone with a large HD display.

Thanks, Oracle, for Harshing the Enterprise Tech Buzz

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 21, 2011 at 3:50 pm PT

A disappointing quarter from Oracle seems to blast apart the idea that enterprise tech companies are holding steady. As usual, the markets overreacted.

Oracle’s Lousy Quarter Takes Many Other Stocks Down

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 21, 2011 at 7:42 am PT

By missing its sales forecasts by nearly a half-billion dollars, Oracle shares are diving and taking many other enterprise IT stocks along for the ride.

VMware Q3 Profit More Than Doubled on Wide Growth in Demand

Joan E. Solsman, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Enterprise on October 17, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT

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.

Fusion-io Brings Speedy Flash to Virtual Machines

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on August 29, 2011 at 9:44 pm PT

Fusion-io brings the summer of “flash madness” to virtualized computing environments, and thus to the cloud.

VMware CEO Paul Maritz Talks About the Cloud Monster, Microsoft and More! (Video)

Kara Swisher in Enterprise on July 13, 2011 at 10:31 am PT

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.

Gathering Storm: As VMware “Monsters” Up, Citrix Buys Cloud.com

Kara Swisher in Enterprise on July 12, 2011 at 10:03 am PT

At a live event in San Francisco today, virtualization giant VMware unveiled what it called a “monster” of a cloud infrastructure suite, even as rival Citrix forked over more than $200 million for Silicon Valley’s Cloud.com. The competition in the space is certainly heating up as several rivals compete to become the key provider of technology and management in the cloud, as companies increasingly move their business operations there.

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Cloud Gets Social: VMware Acquires Socialcast

Liz Gannes in Social on May 31, 2011 at 1:50 pm PT

Virtualization company VMware has acquired Socialcast, an enterprise collaboration start-up, for an undisclosed sum. Socialcast customers and users include VMware itself, as well as Avaya, Humana, Nokia, Philips Electronics and (disclosure alert!) even little AllThingsD. It’s kind of like a Facebook news feed for the enterprise, which can be hosted by Socialcast or by customers on their own premises.