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VMware's Greene: Utilities pushing virtualization

Power companies are lining up to offer rebates for customers that use virtualization to cut data center power consumption, says VMware president Diane Greene. Greene, speaking at the UBS Enterprise Technology Forum in New York, said that the Pacific Gas and...

Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, Diane Greene, virtualization, server, VMware Inc., desktop

Blog posts 2006-12-13

Unplugged: VMware's Diane Greene

In this special edition of the Dan and David Show we interview to VMware President Diane Greene. VMware just announced a future product designed to enable Mac OS X users to run multiple PC operating systems simultaneously without rebooting. David has been hot on the virtualization topic lately, and peppers...

Tags: VMware Inc., Diane Greene

Blog posts 2006-08-08

AlwaysOn: Virtualization re-inventing the data center

Virtualization, along with SOA, multi-core processors and other technologies, is changing the economics of data centers. "It's the biggest thing going on it IT," said Diane Greene, president and founder of virtualization pioneer VMware during a panel at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit. "It's front and center in the mind...

Tags: Diane Greene, virtualization

Blog posts 2006-07-26

VMware shares its source

I used to think of VMware a part of EMC as a savvy technology company that figured out something others couldn't. Now the company has also become business and politically savvy in trying to establish VMware as a de facto standard the default for virtualization services by allowing partners to...

Tags: VMware Inc.

Blog posts 2005-08-08

Additional Resources

Can Cloudera take Hadoop commercial?

Cloudera, a Burlingame, Calif. start-up, on Monday said that it has raised $5 million in venture funding and aims to take Hadoop, the open source software behind Facebook, Google and Facebook, to a data center near you. Hadoop is open source software used to store and process...

Tags: Apache Hadoop, Game Plan, Cloudera Distribution, Data Centers, Storage, Team Management, Open Source, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Silicon Valley's gender gap

I recently spoke with Judy Estrin, one of Silicon Valley's top entrepreneurs, about her new book "Closing the Innovation Gap." But what about closing the gender gap? I asked her why there are so few, and now fewer--with Diane Greene out as CEO of VMware--women in senior...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Gender And Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-09-04

VMware's R&D chief quits after 9 months

VMware said Tuesday that its executive vice president of research and development has resigned after nine months on the job. In a terse statement, VMware said that Richard Sarwal quit to go back to Oracle. Sarwal joined VMware in December 2007. VMware CEO Paul...

Tags: Stock Option, Security, Amount, R&D, Stock, Employment, Agreement, VMware Inc., Company, RSU, Control, Change, Cause, Person, Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-02

VMware re-issues ESX 3.5 Update 2 to remove embarassing timebomb

VMware released today a refresh of its recently released ESX 3.5 and ESX 3.5i Update 2 software that eliminates the embrassing timebomb that killed the software's use on Aug 12. The code was in the beta, and was designed to pull the plug on the software's use...

Tags: VMware Inc., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Tools & Techniques, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Management, Storage, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-08-14

VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale

VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and moraleWe need better Wall Street analystsI frequently see the phrase "fell short of Wall Street analysts predictions", as if a company did not do as well as it should have, and has a negative connotation.I'm seeing this phrase with increasing frequency, these...

Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale

updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago. Revenues were $456 million, an...

Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Diane Greene out, Paul Maritz to lead VMware

While working in San Francisco, I received quite a number of telephone calls from journalists around the world. Since I was "off the grid" for the project, I had no idea what was going on. I finally returned to my hotel room and could read my messages, I learned that...

Tags: Board, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Paul Maritz, Corporate Governance, Desktop Virtualization, Open Source, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-10

EMC taps ex Microsofter Maritz to fend off Microsoft Hyper-V

It takes one to know one.  At least that’s what EMC hopes as it appoints former Microsofter Paul Maritz to head up its lucrative VMWare unit, not coincidentally on the same day that Microsoft formally released its much anticipated Hyper-V to market. The departure of longtime...

Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Did open source make Green go at VMWare?

Diane Green Greene has been shown the door at VMWare, the company she founded. Another victim of open source? Possibly. Ironically, Green Greene told our Dan Farber two years ago "the industry goes at Microsoft's cadence," and she's being replaced by a former Microsoft executive,...

Tags: VMware Inc., Diane Green Greene, Virtualization, Open Source, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-08

VMware: CEO Greene out; Revenue light

VMware on Tuesday swapped CEOs and said that its revenue growth would fall short of expectations. In a statement, VMware said that CEO Diane Greene has departed. She will be replaced by Paul Maritz right effective immediately. Maritz will also be president and sit on VMware's board....

Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Views from VMware's Analyst Day

Yesterday I attended a VMware analyst briefing in good ol' Beantown, a.k.a. Boston, Massachusetts. Having had the opportunity to speak with the executives of well over 120 companies offering something in the realm of virtualization technology, I came to the event with a fairly neutral viewpoint. Although I was ready...

Tags: VMware Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-19

VMware targets long-term deals; pursues lock-in strategy

VMware's first quarter results got the company out of Wall Street's penalty box and highlighted how the virtualization leader is trying to sign customers up to long-term licensing deals to fend off a potential pricing pressure from rivals such as Citrix and Microsoft. VMware after the closing...

Tags: Strategy, Revenue, Customer, Agreement, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-23

VMware maiden earnings report tops projections

VMware's first quarter as a public company was an impressive one. The company on Wednesday reported third quarter earnings of $65 million, or 18 cents a share, on revenue of $358 million. Revenue was up 90 percent from a year ago. Excluding charges, VMware reported net income...

Tags: Earnings Report, VMware Inc., Sales Strategy, Data Centers, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Sales, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-24

Talent recruitment spurs VMware IPO

The folks that wanted EMC to carve out VMware in an initial public offering are getting their wish. EMC said after market close that it will sell 10 percent of VMware in an IPO. EMC retains ownership of VMware...

Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, VMware, virtualization, EMC, EMC Corp., VMware Inc.

Blog posts 2007-02-07

Virtual appliances and the changing role of operating systems

A few months ago I found myself waiting for a flight at the Burbank airport with Mendel Rosenblum. He is a co-founder of VMware and chief scientist at the company and an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford. VMware was founded in 1998 by Rosenblum and...

Tags: operating system

Blog posts 2006-11-01

Am I a Windows pirate? WGA would say yes but you decide

Yesterday, when my colleague Dan Farber and I interviewed VMware CEO Diane Greene for a podcast here on ZDNet, Greene noted that the licensing practices of some of todays vendors are out of lockstep with the direction that technology is taking. If you ask me, that point couldnt be...

Tags: VMware Inc., WGA, piracy

Blog posts 2006-08-10