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10 May 2013 | Linda Smith | No Comments | 187 views | Categories: Featured, Headline, VMware
VMware adds to View and vCloud certification programmes

VMware announced at its VMworld 2012 conference that it would be releasing new certifications related to View and vCloud, and true to its word a number of certificates have been announced over the past few weeks, with the promise of even more to come…

8 May 2013 | Linda Smith | No Comments | 125 views | Categories: Featured, Headline, Microsoft
Microsoft plans for smaller Windows 8 tablets

Peter Klein, Microsoft’s outgoing chief financial officer has revealed that Microsoft is working with its hardware partners to release a range of smaller devices running Windows 8.

30 Apr 2013 | Linda Smith | No Comments | 164 views | Categories: Featured, Headline, Microsoft
Yammer to be integrated with Office 365 and SharePoint

Microsoft’s plans for enterprise social networking will increasingly revolve around Yammer, following its purchase last year, with the intention to integrate it with both Office 365 and SharePoint.

A recent announcement has made it clear that Office 365’s first round of integration with Yammer is coming this summer.

19 Apr 2013 | Linda Smith | No Comments | 226 views | Categories: Featured, Headline, VMware
VMware reveals three growth priorities for 2013

VMware has announced that the software-defined data centre, a new hybrid cloud service and empowering the multi-device era will form its main priorities during the forthcoming year.

18 Mar 2013 | Linda Smith | No Comments | 302 views | Categories: Featured, Headline, VMware
VMware rolls out a range of channel partner improvements

VMware Partner Exchange 2013 saw a raft of new programmes for channel partners, including new initiatives designed to market cloud services and establish role-based accreditations.

13 Mar 2013 | Linda Smith | No Comments | 285 views | Categories: Featured, Headline, Microsoft
Microsoft joins Open Data Center Alliance

Microsoft has given a significant boost to the development of interoperability and common standards by announcing that it has joined the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA).

1 Mar 2013 | Linda Smith | No Comments | 679 views | Categories: Featured, Headline, VMware
VMware provides best practice guidance on virtualising business-critical applications

The question of whether or not to virtualise their business critical applications is a thorny one facing many organisations, so we’ll take a look at some of the answers by delving into a new white paper from VMware on this very subject.

11 Feb 2013 | Linda Smith | No Comments | 362 views | Categories: Featured, Headline, Microsoft
Microsoft research highlights widening cloud skills gap

A new study claims that there will be up to seven million new cloud-related IT jobs globally by 2015 but the lack of suitably qualified candidates will lead to problems in actually filling these roles. Training and certification will, therefore, have key roles to play.

8 Feb 2013 | Linda Smith | No Comments | 326 views | Categories: Featured, Headline, VMware
VMware provides virtualisation advice for SMEs

It’s reported that the majority of SMEs are planning for, or already deploying virtualisation. So, with this in mind, VMware has put together some new advice intended to guide SMEs on their virtualisation journey.

30 Jan 2013 | Linda Smith | No Comments | 302 views | Categories: Featured, Headline, Learning and Technology News
Big Data; EMC and VMware get Pivotal

Paul Maritz’s new baby Pivotal Initiative, takes VMware and EMCs big data and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud products to market under a new umbrella.