Telefonica and Verizon will become the first operators to offer Android phones running VMware’s mobile hypervisor, the companies announced on Wednesday at the VMworld 2011 Europe conference in Copenhagen. VMware has previously said that Verizon would offer the service, without disclosing details about timing, but this is the first time Telefonica has said it plans to offer phones with the hypervisor. Users of phones with the VMware product will find two profiles on their devices: […]
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Cloud computing will play a critical role in helping organisations meet the threefold challenge of an explosion in data, IT budget costs and security threats, according to EMC CEO Joe Tucci. Speaking at EMC World in Las Vegas, Tucci said the hybrid cloud – where companies rely on IT services provided from both the public and private cloud – will provide organisations with “the answer” to these challenges. Tucci illustrated the scale of the difficulties […]
The expansion of cloud computing has led to significant growth in the virtualisation market, according to a report by IDC. In the latest Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualisation Tracker, IDC discovered that 19.4 per cent of all new servers shipped in the last quarter of 2010 were virtualised, up from 18.4 per cent for the same quarter a year ago. Some 398,617 virtualised servers were shipped in the final three months of 2010, with much of […]