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PHD Technologies Appoints Sridhar Murthy As CEO

PHD Technologies, provider of the esXPRESS backup and restoration solution for virtualized infrastructures, today announced the appointment of Sridhar Murthy as the company’s chief executive officer.

21Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Update On ESX 3.5 Issue: A Letter from Paul Maritz

New VMware CEO Paul Maritz has issued an official statement about the major bug plaguing customers who had updated to ESX / ESXi 3.5 Update 2 and experienced a serious problem yesterday due to a mistake in the licensing code.

13Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

0wning Xen?

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InvisibleThings.org posted some more details on their Xen Owning Trilogy session at last weeks Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
Joanna Rutkowska and her crew gave a series of 3 talks discussing different potential security issues with Xen. With the
VirtSec awareness growing this obviously is an important topic .
When quickly skimming trough the presentations [...]

11Aug2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Virtualization.com Contest: Guess What’s on Werner Vogels’ Mind and Win A Book

Guess what Werner Vogels has written in O’Reilly’s “Programming Amazon Web Services S3, EC2, SQS, FPS and SimpleDB” book, and maybe you’ll get it for free!

31Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | Continued

Video Interview: Werner Vogels, CTO Amazon on Virtualization and the VC Threat

At the GigaOM Structure08 conference in San Francisco, we had the opportunity to question Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels on his virtualization experience, while building the Amazon cloud. He confirmed Amazon Web Services are still powered by Xen hypervisors.

31Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 1 comment | Continued

A Round Table on Virtualization Security with Industry Experts

A conference call about virtualization security (virtsec) with Joe Pendry (Director of Marketing at StackSafe), Kris Buytaert (Principle at Consultant Inuits), Tarry Singh (Industry/Market Analyst Founder & CEO of Avastu), Andreas Antonopoulos (SVP & Founding Partner at Nemertes Research),Allwyn Sequeira (SVP & CTO at Blue Lane), Michael Berman (CTO at Catbird), Chris Hoff (Chief Security Architect - Systems & Technology Division and Blogger at Unisys) and Hezi Moore (President, Founder & CTO at Reflex Security).

30Jul2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued

Virtutech Boasts Virtualized Software Development Leadership

Virtutech, provider of virtualized software development (VSD) solutions, today announced new metrics that solidify the company’s position as the VSD platform vendor of choice for electronic systems developers.

30Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Industry Moves: Mark Pileski and Leandra Yanagawa to VMLogix, Jason Langone to IGI

VMLogix today announced that Mark Pileski and Leandra Yanagawa have joined as VPs, while IGI has hired Jason Langone as Director of Virtualization Services.

30Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Amazon Loves CloudStatus, And We’ve Got The Proof on Video

At the O’Reilly Velocity conference we attended last month, Hyperic was there to hype the launch of Cloudstatus, which aspires to become the monitoring tool for cloud providers. Get the lowdown on Hyperic and CloudStatus in this video (two parts) from Jon Travis (Principal Engineer) and Xavier Soltero (co-founder and CEO).

29Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 2 comments | Continued

Forbes Interviews Paul Maritz

Forbes interviewed newly appointed VMware CEO and Microsoft vet Paul Maritz after last night’s earnings call. This is the most interesting excerpt as far as we’re concerned.

23Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Diane Greene’s Potential Payout Nearly $50 Million USD

According to VMware’s proxy statement, Greene could be paid a bonus of $491,678 and her stock options may vest early, which could increase the value of her potential payout to $47.5 million or even more.

22Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued

Interphase Systems Wants Lew Smith To Grow Virtualization Business

Management and technology consulting company Interphase Systems today announced it has named Lew Smith as Product Manager, Virtualization Solutions. In this newly created position, he will be responsible for building Interphase’s virtualization practice and offerings. Smith will continue to build relationships with existing technology partners, as well as engaging in new partner relationships.

22Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued
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