What’s VMworld for? That’s to say, is it an event for VMware and its partners to show their wares, talk up the last technologies and meet and greet their customers?  Or is it an event that’s a showcase for the virtualisation...

What are the factors to consider when it comes to virtualising your infrastructure? And do the business benefits offset the advantages? Those are some of the interesting questions raised by the recent survey published by F5, research that found that...

Why has Europe been left out of VMware's money-back deal? The company has created a bit of a stir with its plans to guarantee hardware costs savings of at least 50 percent with the promise that the costs of software...

How important are blade servers to adopting virtualisation? Or more accurately, to what extent does the choice of server vendor play a part in the success or failure of a virtualisation rollout That was the theme of an interesting discussion...

 A strange thing has happened: the IDG news service - which supplies IT news to all IDG titles, including Techworld - took one of our articles from 2004 and posted it as if it were a fresh, new story ....

Businesses are just getting their collective heads around the idea of virtualisation but VMware is going even further that that. A conversation with Jocelyn Goldfein,the head of VMware's desktop virtualisation team, reveals just how far the Vmware 'ecosystem' (to quote...