VMworld product blitz: Hot technology for the virtual world; Still trying to crack Nazi Enigma messages

News podcast: Network World 360; Xen.org aims for the cloud with open source initiative Daily News PM Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Actuate Biz Intel Reporting Think beyond the current structure of a report and personalize it with Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRT) Interactive Viewer. Meet data visualization requirements faster and with less development by making BIRT web output interactive. Learn more. Spotlight Story VMworld product blitz: Hot technology for the virtual world VMworld has become one of the key events each year for vendors releasing products related to virtualization and cloud computing. Here we highlight new products targeting storage, server and desktop needs in virtualized data centers. Read full story Related News: News podcast: Network World 360 Software designed to beat Chinese censorship may behave in ways that seem suspect, but it is all part of the application's strategy to fool the Great Firewall of China, according to one programmer of the software. Developers of the Xen open source hypervisor are trying to make Xen the industry's cloud-building platform of choice with a new initiative designed to expand upon the hypervisor's ability to create "secure, customizable, multi-tenant cloud services." (5:51) Xen.org aims for the cloud with open source initiative Developers of the Xen open source hypervisor are trying to make Xen the industry's cloud-building platform of choice. VMware unwraps virtualization management tools VMware has revealed several virtualization management products to be announced at VMworld Monday, but is so far shying away from any big-ticket announcements. 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