Egenera Virtualization Blog

My earlier post focused on my general observations about VMworld and the hot topics in play. Needless to say from inside and around the Egenera booth, I was pretty overwhelmed by what a great reception our technology and our vision garnered.  Incidentally, this was our first year with a standalone booth at VMworld and it [...]

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Yesterday marked what can perhaps be seen as an end to an era with the departure of Diane Greene from VMware. The company’s brilliant and meteoric growth, and its dominance in the “Server Virtualization” space cannot be denied. In some ways, we can all thank VMware for shining a brighter light on how customers can [...]

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Yesterday, we announced our support for VMware Infrastructure 3 support on the Egenera BladeFrame. What’s the big deal, as everyone supports VMware today?
The big deal is the combination of the best-in-class server virtualization from VMware combined with the best-in-class I/O virtualization from Egenera. That combination is very powerful.
Why? Because server virtualization technology is enhanced greatly [...]

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Wow, go away for a little vacation and look what happens… VMWare has a killer IPO (not a surprise), XenSource gets bought for a HUGE multiple (big surprise), and IBM agrees to license Solaris x86 for their blade servers (even bigger surprise).

VMWare’s IPO was a great showing for the power of virtualization. They have built [...]

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Why is EMC offering shares of its VMware subsidiary to the public market?
Some theories:

Maximize on VMware’s current market value. EMC is trying to benefit from VMware’s maximum value, before the market becomes more competitive with future offerings from Xen (via XenSource) and Microsoft. The commoditization of hypervisors may lower VMware’s future valuation over the long-term, [...]

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