Social networking icon Facebook -- perhaps with a deserved emphasis on "networking" -- announced that is now expanding its Open Compute Project in an effort to take a fresh look at enterprise-level switch design. Facebook is hoping OCP will yield a high-end,…
Posted July 24, 2012, 11:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in Industry News
VMware, a virtualization technology specialist announced on its official blog yesterday that it will acquire California-based networking startup Nicira for $1.26 billion, as the firm looks to further bolster its leading position in the virtual machine marketplace.
Posted April 27, 2012, 9:00 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in IT Security
VMware just became the latest victim of hackers, with the firm acknowledging a breach that resulted in source code for their ESX virtualization products being stolen and posted online. The attack is reportedly the work of a hacker known as…
Posted April 2, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News
Possibly in attempt to expand up on its "we're not really a PC company" strategy, Dell has acquired Wyse for an undisclosed amount. Based in San Jose, Wyse has long specialized in thin-clients, offering vertically integrated, centralized computing solutions for…
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