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Was SAP Too Slow on SaaS? Maybe, Maybe Not

Submitted by Hoofer on Tue, 2010-08-03 16:53
Grazed from IT Business Edge.  Author: Ann All.

Several publications are reporting the results of a small survey of British and Irish SAP users, in which nearly three-quarters of the respondents knocked SAP for being too slow to bring its software-as-a-service offerings to market. But what is too slow?

 

Convirture Aims to Be VMware for Linux Data Centers

Submitted by Hoofer on Sun, 2010-08-01 22:18
Grazed from eWeek.  Author:  Chris Preimesberger.

VMware's ESX hypervisor and its vCenter control suite are thought to be operating in more than 80 percent of all enterprise IT systems. And some IT people believe that number is too conservative.

Microsoft's Hyper-V, still getting its bearings in the market, is growing in use but its market share is still mired in the single digits. That leaves 10 to 15 percent of all the rest deploying other virtual systems middleware, mainly the open-source XenServer and KVM hypervisors that come bundled in most Linux distributions.