Cloud Computing: VMworld kicks off at Moscone; will VMware appease the faithful?

Grazed from SFGate.  Author: Benny Evangelista.

At last year’s VMworld, the big news was conference sponsor VMware announcing partnerships with big companies like Hewlett-Packard and Dell to introduce two business virtualization products.  But in July, VMware suffered a setback when HP dropped out of an agreement to bundle VMware’s Evo Rail technology with an HP system.

“We thought it was very interesting and well-intentioned, but when we look back a year later, there was just no real market traction,” said Joe Skorupa, a data center convergence analyst with the Gartner research firm…

VMware is technology that allows multiple operating systems and applications to run on the same server simultaneously, creating “virtual machines.” This type of virtualization, different than cloud technology, can save businesses money by reducing the computer equipment they have to buy…

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