The news has hit the Internet in various places, but I wanted to point it out here because it does help to debunk the myth that virtualization can’t handle all workload. What’s the news? EMC and VMware have jointly demonstrated that a single VMware vSphere host running just three virtual machines can drive just above 350,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS).

I’ll let that sink in for just a moment. In case you don’t understand just how significant that number is, consider that a typi...

VMware Completes Acquisition of SpringSource

Combination Will Enable Customers to More Efficiently Build, Run and Manage Applications on both Internal and External Clouds

PALO ALTO, Calif., September 16, 2009 — VMware, Inc., (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced the completion of its acquisition of SpringSource, a leader in enterprise and web application development and management. VMware announ...

At the end of August VMware finally released its authoring product Studio 2.0.

This new Studio introduces the support for vApps, the next incarnation of the VMware Virtual Appliances (VA), and a number of additional, welcome features:

• Support for vSphere 4.0 (including both ESX and ESXi hosts), Server and Workstation as provisioning engines.
• Support for OVF 1.0 and 0.9 formats
• Support for VA/vApp customization (logo, EULA, first-boot script and user management capabilities)
• Support...