But with its new thin client offerings--the first products to come out of its acquisition of hardware firm Neoware last year--HP is hoping to tap into a growing trend sparked by software offerings from companies such as VMware and Microsoft: virtualization.
By November, rivals such as Oracle and Microsoft started rolling out virtualization products and publicizing their grand plans around the technology.
By November, rivals such as Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) and Microsoft started rolling out virtualization products and publicizing their grand plans around the technology.
VMware competes with Microsoft and Citrix in the virtualization market, which it leads with around 45% share globally.
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One of the challenges of desktop virtualization is translating Microsoft 's DirectX graphics language into the OpenGL standard used by Apple.
Over the past year, security researchers have revealed bugs in practically every piece of virtualization software, including products from virtualization heavyweights VMware and Microsoft .
Although VMware is the leader in so-called virtualization software, which lets servers run many operating systems and applications at the same time, the company hasn't come up with a strategy to remain on top, especially as Microsoft has begun ramping up its virtualization offerings.
He notes that virtualization could prove more profitable for Microsoft than, say, search advertising, where it is a distant No. 3 to Google, because the company already has a strong presence in the enterprise space.
He notes that virtualization could prove more profitable for Microsoft than, say, search advertising, where it is a distant No. 3 to Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), because the company already has a strong presence in the enterprise space.
Microsoft estimates that only 5% of businesses are using virtualization.
Moving on, your understanding of application virtualization is hopelessly inaccurate, I challenge you to name any application virtualization product that can take a copy of Microsoft Office and make it run on OS X or Android.
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These services are strong in the aforementioned Microsoft domain, but also in database, application performance, virtualization, and many other areas.
At MMS, Microsoft will be demonstrating a private cloud management stack that builds on virtualization and fully enables this new vision of private cloud management.
Fusion-io said that its Fusion-io virtualization caching software offers intelligent application caching for Linux as well as Microsoft operating systems.
But with its new thin client offerings--the first products to come out of its acquisition of hardware firm Neoware last year--HP is hoping to tap into a growing trend sparked by software offerings from companies such as VMware (nyse: VMW - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ): virtualization.
Microsoft has its own application platform, called Azure, and Citrix offers its own line of virtualization software.
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Microsoft on Monday planned to announce what it calls a companywide strategy to accelerate broad adoption of virtualization by its customers.
As this move to server virtualization transpired, a coinciding evolution in IT management capabilities needed to occur and we at Microsoft began delivering this years ago with the Microsoft System Center suite, adapting the tools to provide the same management experience across your physical and virtual environments.
Microsoft is considered VMware's biggest threat, and the software giant says it's serious about virtualization.
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