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September 15, 2007

Glass Ceiling for Women in High-Tech... REAL, VMware CEO admits (video)

In the last part of our conversation at last year's VMworld, I asked VMware CEO about her views on how women are perceived in high-tech companies and if she felt any gender bias in her career. A year earlier...

September 13, 2007

[VMworld 07] VMware Lacks Bare Metal Server Management/Granularity, Cisco points out (video)

At VMworld yesterday, Cisco launched a version of their server provisioning platform compatible with VMWare's ESX hypervisor. What VFrame Data Centre does is that it configures remotely and dynamically a bare-metal server with images of OSes (Windows, Linux and now...

High-Tech Legends Party For a Cause! (video)

I left the VMworld party early to watch/listen Don Clark of the Wall Street Journal and his band "Off the Record" at the Rockit Room bar in San Francisco. The concert was hosted by PR firm Voce Communications to...

[VMworld 07] Time for a 'Real' Party! (video)

Lots of people, food, alcohol, music and fun at last night's VMworld party hosted at Treasure Island, just across San Francisco. The weather was nice so you could enjoy the outside concert, food and games. Inside one of the...

September 12, 2007

Dell to Partner with Big Box Retailers in Top 10 Countries, CEO Confirms (video)

At his Q&A session, right after the public presentation of his company new storage offering for the mid-market, Michael Dell stressed that his company was only one in the technology space, in the last 5 or 6 years, to actually...

September 11, 2007

[VMworld 07] VESO: Dell's AMD Quad-Core Server Made for Virtualisation with up to 128GB Memory, 4 PCI Slots, 20 Ethernet Ports and an Embedded Virtual Server!

So the VESO (pictured) is a two-sockets virtualisation optimised server, available in November. Dell believes that a 2 sockets server is the appropriate "envelope" for virtualisation because with quad-core processors "you don't really need more processors". Veso will also...

September 10, 2007

AMD Attracts VIP Crowd For Quad-Core Opteron Launch

CEO Hector Ruiz attracted a nice crowd for AMD's Barcelona red carpet launch event at Lucasfilm San Francisco campus, including Diane Greene (VMWare CEO), Jonathan Schwartz (Sun CEO), Mark Jarvis (Dell CMO) and Star Wars Producer, Rick McCallum....

[VMworld 06] Back To The Future: VMware CEO on Competition, Opensource, Standards...

If virtualisation is your world then you can't miss VMworld. The largest conference/tradeshow on computer virtualisation is happening this week in San Francisco and gather more than 10,000 "techies" (not much suits but they are coming!). I thought I'll...

HP Not Commited to Storage for SMBs, Dell Exec Says (video)

After the lengthy and "boring" presentation of Dell's new storage area network device aimed at smaller businesses, I sat down with Darren Thomas, the general manager and vice president of storage at Dell. Thomas questioned HP's commitment to that space...