Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds

Diane Greene Interviewed: Co-operate and Compete?
Where Ms Greene differs from the old school of high-tech bosses is how she sees the interplay between competition and co-operation. “I grew up playing Monopoly and Risk,” she says. “You have to collaborate to win these games—and compete when it is ti
Global Sourcing: India still top outsourcing country, but will lose to China by 2012!
This one is pretty optimistic about India:Two other Indian cities also made it to the top 10 list--New Delhi edged out Manila for the number two spot, while Mumbai dropped three places from last year's list to seventh.Jenna Griffin, senior research a
Geographically Distributed Desktop Virtualization: Qumranet begins with beta testing
Qumranet, the commercial sponsor of the KVM virtualization software, has begun beta-testing a desktop virtualization system aimed at geographicallydistributed organizations.The company's existing Solid ICE desktop virtualization system was designed t
Om Malik's team interviews Citrix CTO
GigaOM: Can you tell me how the launch of Hyper-V affects Citrix Xen products?Crosby: Our key founding philosophy was fast, free, compatible and ubiquitous hypervisors. Microsoft’s Hyper-V which is compatible with XenServer, is alright when it comes
Storage vendors beginning to get unconfortable with VMware
But as VMware adds features to its file system, there's growing suspicion among storage vendors that the company is trying to move storage system value-adds into its Hypervisor. Some storage vendors think that VMware is stepping on their toes, especi
Microsoft puntures VMware's balloon
This kind of thing happens a lot to hot new issues. Six to 12 months after the IPO, reality comes barging in. If it’s not a bruising competitor like Microsoft, it’s something else that pours cold water on the enthusiasm. You see it a lot with glamour
Atos Origin wins 100 Million Euros contract with EDF!
Atos Origin was selected as the architect of the information system and lead manager of the consortium of technology firms that will conduct the pilot phase from March to September 2010. An ERDF spokesman said the contract to act as architect
Virtualization Market: A Real-Time Market Analysis
Watching folks panic and start picking up glass-balls and attempting to predict the future made me worry a bit. I got drawn to it and indeed fell prey to the trap. So I got myself thinking and wrote up a little piece of what we ought to expect from t
VMware completes B-hive acquisition; prepares for application performance!
With this acquisition, VMware will leverage the B-hive team and technology to enhance the VMware portfolio of application and infrastructure management products by offering proactive performance management and service level reporting for applications
Citrix CTO blasts responds to Brian Madden's controversial prediction!
I think writing off a technology that is the core of most future computing, is in my personal opinion, absolutely ridiculous. So how about a few sensational stories such as:VMware may eventually face bankruptcy as competition, IP bleeding intensifie