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• VMware beats forecast with strong Q2 results

  VMware on Tuesday reported a 48 percent jump in revenue for the second quarter, a greater increase than expected, and raised its outlook for the full year on strong demand for its virtualization software.

• VMware shifts to new Wellington office

  VMware has outgrown its serviced office in Wellington and has found new premises to accommodate staff hires made this year.

• Salesforce.com, VMware set to launch 'VMForce'

  Salesforce.com and VMware are forging a high-profile partnership, according to a Web site announcing an April 27 event being held by the companies.

• EMC NAS arrays optimised for VMware

  EMC has announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments.

• EMC, Intel, VMware team to secure private clouds

  EMC, Intel and VMware are joining forces to improve security and regulatory compliance in cloud computing with a proof of concept to be demonstrated at this week's RSA Conference in San Francisco.

• VMware buy expands offering

  VMware has acquired three management tools from RTO Software, and will integrate them into its products for desktop and application virtualisation, the company announced last week.

• VMware buys software from parent EMC

  VMware, which is owned by EMC, is acquiring a portion of EMC's software business.

• Cloud buy for CA in 3Tera

  CA is to acquire 3Tera, a small vendor whose AppLogic suite helps customer encapsulate existing applications into containers suited for private and public cloud environments.

• VMware founder backs start-up

  A start-up with financial backing from VMware co-founder Diane Greene is developing a network operating system designed to virtualise networks and create networks optimised for cloud deployments.

• VMware revenue lifted by maintenance fees

  Virtualization company VMware has reported a healthy increase in revenue for the fourth quarter, thanks largely to gains from software maintenance fees.

• VMware urges local partners to take cloud onramp

  VMware’s local partners are being encouraged to take advantage of the vendor’s cloud services as more companies invest in cloud computing.

• VMware to buy Zimbra

  VMware is to buy Yahoo's Zimbra open source messaging business in order to expand its stake in the platform-as-a-service market.

• VMware-Cisco-EMC coalition raises issues

  During the past two weeks, including two full days at the recent EMC Analyst Summit, we have been educated (inundated) with information regarding the wonders of the coalition of VMware, Cisco and EMC to produce a series of integrated products that include unified computing (Cisco), virtualised operating systems (VMware) and integrated storage (EMC) called Vblocks.

• VMware creates NZ regional manager role

  VMware has shoulder tapped its Wellington based senior corporate account manager Tim Dacombe-Bird to become New Zealand regional manager.
  The newly created role means VMware has a local management presence. Dacombe-Bird officially starts in the role on January 1 next year. He will remain in Wellington and report directly to ANZ managing director Paul Harapin.

• VMware releases Windows 7 virtualisation tool

  VMware has added support for Windows 7 and expanded the ability to handle virtual processors in Workstation 7, the new version of its platform for running multiple OSes simultaneously on a PC.