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24 Jan 12

Virtualisation behemoth VMWare has surpassed financial predictions to smash the $1 billion barrier in the fourth quarter of 2011. The scale of VMware's virtual server revenue stream now rivals IBM's Power Systems and System z mainframe physical server businesses (individually) and, according the The Register, is roughly the same size as the systems business at Oracle, and larger than the Itanium-based server business at HP.

Hyper-V Supports CentOS

17 May 11

Microsoft has added support for another Linux server distribution with its Hyper-V virtualisation software, its latest move to compete better with virtualisation market leader VMware. Customers can now run the CentOS flavour of Linux as a guest operating system in supported Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V environments, Sandy Gupta, general manager for marketing in Microsoft's Open Solutions Group, was due to announce at the Open Source Business Conference.

Cloud Security Still a Concern for Companies

Security remains the main hurdle to businesses switching to cloud computing, according to an AMD survey.

Amazon: Some Data Won't be Recovered After Cloud Outage

Approximately 0.07 per cent of the EBS storage volumes in the East Region of Amazon's infrastructure cloud are not "fully recoverable" following the outage that hit the service last Thursday.

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