This week, after many rumors and much speculation, VMware officially announced plans to purchase Zimbra from the Yahoo! Corporation.
Zimbra is a powerful commercial open source email server application. One of the leading benefits of the Zimbra platform is it’s cross-platform compatibility with Windows, Linux and Mac clients. Notably, it also offers tight integration with Microsoft [...]

In an announcement that hasn’t exactly come as a big surprise to the industry, Cisco, EMC and VMware have formed a Coalition to Accelerate Pervasive Virtualization and Private Cloud Infrastructures.
The coalition aims to ease adoption of virtual environments and accelerate build-outs of private cloud infrastructures with the announcement of Vblock Infrastructure Packages.
Vblock Infrastructure Packages are [...]

Today VMware has released the latest version of their desktop virtualization platform, VMware Workstation 7.
VMware Workstation 7 features advanced capabilities to help developers, QA engineers, technical sales professionals, and IT administrators get up and running faster and streamline tasks that save time and improve productivity.
The first desktop virtualization product with Windows Aero support, VMware Workstation [...]

Today, Microsoft releases updates to both it’s desktop and server operating systems:
Windows 7
Windows 7 marks the latest edition of the Microsoft Windows desktop workstation operating system. While its predecessor, Windows Vista, introduced quite a few new features, the Windows 7 release is a more focused, incremental upgrade to the Windows product line, geared toward being [...]

This Monday, VMware issued the following press release announcing the availability of their new VMware vCenter CapacityIQ product:
VMware Delivers New Management Solution for Unprecedented Insight Into Datacenter Capacity – Optimizing for Reduced Waste, Overhead and Risk
PALO ALTO, Calif., October 19, 2009 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop [...]