Virtualization Report (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
The big virtualization show, VMworld 2008, officially kicked off yesterday with the opening keynote address coming from new VMware CEO Paul Maritz. A brief history, new concepts, future product demos and hard hitting questions were all part of the event for Maritz. READ MORE
Computer World (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Paul Maritz, VMWare's new CEO and president, told the audience at VMWorld that as the importance of operating systems declines, the ability to deliver applications as a service -- regardless of OS or hardware -- grows.
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
In a direct stab at his old employer, VMware CEO Paul Maritz launched today the next generation OS: the virtual datacenter operating system from VMware. Forget about Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. VMware's future 'Virtual Datacenter OS' is a set of services that will allow customers to "pool...
Chuck's Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
... But what's really going on here? VMware, Leading The Charge ... Again If you listened carefully to Paul Maritz' keynote at VMworld, at one point he spoke quite eloquently about the "deconstruction of the operating system". That thought resonated with many people, and I for one saw that he was pointing to but a single example of a much broader theme -- the deconstruction of infrastructure....
Computerworld UK's Roundup (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Recently Paul Maritz, an ex-Microsoft executive and current president of VMware, said the traditional server operating system was obsolete. Rob Kelly, Microsoft's corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing, discusses the future of the OS and cloud-based services.
Computer World (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
As VMware unveiled its cloud computing initiative at VMworld, CEO Paul Maritz told his keynote audience that as the importance of operating systems declines, the ability to deliver applications as a service grows.
FinanMart.com - IT News (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Rob Kelly, Microsoft's corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing, discusses the adoption rate of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft's plans for cloud-based services and the recent declaration by Paul Maritz, an ex-Microsoft executive and current president and CEO of VMware, that the traditional server operating system "has all but disappeared."
Fool.com (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
How much talent can VMWare (NYSE: ) afford to lose? We're about to find out. On Friday, executives at this recommendation said that Paul Chan, a senior leader in charge of product development, has resigned.Chan's leaving follows co-founder Diane Greene's by parent company EMC (NYSE: ) in July. Co-founder Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, Greene's husband, soon followed.But the brain drain didn't stop there....
Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Pamela Jones at Groklaw seems to concur with what we’ve been saying for months [, , , ]. Yesterday she wrote: “There is something very fishy about this story. It’s like a manufactured “dispute”, and considering the new CEO at VMware is a retired Microsoft executive, Paul Maritz, who worked for Microsoft for 14 years, and considering some feel VMware , and considering the nasty things...
Information Week (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
VMware CEO Paul Maritz has unfurled a vision of virtualization as the enabler of future, flexible data center management -- the company's response to Microsoft making its Hyper-V hypervisor a cheap feature of the server operating system.
Computerworld UK's Roundup (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
At chief executive Paul Maritz's first VMworld conference, the company previewed a broad set of technology designed to help enterprises become cloud computing providers to their employees.
InfoWorld (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
VMware CEO Paul Maritz said the company has considered open sourcing its hypervisor and supporting virtualization tools made by competitors, but didn't give any indication about if or when those changes will be implemented. "We have thought about whether we want to open source ESX," Maritz said Tuesday during a public Q&A session at VMworld in Las Vegas. ( See a slideshow of virtualization...
ZD Net Blog (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
One of the three pillars of Paul Maritz's VMworld Keynote address (see Notes from VMworld and Maritz: VMware’s Virtual DataCenter OS, VMware View is better next gen operating system than Windows and Hyper-V) focused on virtualizing the user desktop computing experience. He spoke of this like it was a new idea and yet there are a host of vendors who have been offering components...
Computerworld UK's Roundup (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
VMware has considered open sourcing its hypervisor and supporting virtualiation tools made by competitors, according to CEO Paul Maritz.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Paul Maritz, President and Chief Executive Officer of VMware (NYSE:VMW), the virtualization leader, today opened VMworld 2008.
