Investors waiting eagerly for VMware's IPO!

Forbes reporting:

Certainly, from a technological standpoint, this is the stock that most of the investing world has been waiting for," said David Menlow, president of market research firm IPOFinancial.com. "It's going to be met with an incredibly strong level of investor support."

But watch out that it may start a domino effect for other IPOs as well!

Despite its connection to well-known players in the tech market, VMware faces the challenge of increasing competition.

"Competition will definitely be an issue, but to what extent I'm reluctant to say," said equity analyst J. Hingorani, who covers EMC at Standard & Poor's. But Hingorani is quick to add that VMware is probably the furthest ahead of its competitors, which include Virtual Iron Software and XenSource.

VMware's IPO could spark additional IPOs in the virtualization market. John Thibault, president and chief executive of Lowell, Mass.-based Virtual Iron, said an initial public offering is something the company will have to consider by the end of next year, or beginning of 2009.

Check Forbes for the rest of the story.

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Get Vyatta Virtual Appliance, now VMware certified!

We all know Vyatta, don't we?

Vyatta, the leader in Linux-based networking, today announced that its open-source networking software has received VMware Virtual Appliance Certification, thereby providing customers with a solution that has been optimized for a production-ready VMware environment. The company also announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program. As a member of TAP, Vyatta will offer its solutions via the TAP program website. With the Vyatta virtual appliance for VMware environments, organizations can now include Vyatta’s router, firewall and VPN functions as part of their virtualized infrastructure.

Vyatta combines enterprise-class routing and security capabilities into an integrated, reliable and commercially supported software solution, delivering twice the performance of proprietary network solutions at half the price. Running Vyatta software as virtual appliances gives customers many more options for scaling their data centers and cons…

3PAR adds native LDAP support to simplify administration

3PAR®, the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today native support for lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP). Support for LDAP enables centralized user authentication and authorization using a standard protocol for managing access to IT resources. With 3PAR’s support for LDAP, customers are able to now integrate 3PAR Utility Storage--a simple, cost-efficient, and massively scalable storage platform—with standard, open enterprise directory services. The result is simplified security administration with centralized access control and identity management.

“3PAR Utility Storage already provides us with a reliable, shared, and easy-to-use consolidated storage platform,” said Burzin Engineer, Vice President of Infrastructure Services at Shopzilla. "Now, with 3PAR support for LDAP, managing security commonly--across all our resources, including storage--is also simple and efficient.”

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Forbes reporting:

Certainly, from a technological standpoint, this is the stock that most of the investing world has been waiting for," said David Menlow, president of market research firm IPOFinancial.com. "It's going to be met with an incredibly strong level of investor support."

But watch out that it may start a domino effect for other IPOs as well!

Despite its connection to well-known players in the tech market, VMware faces the challenge of increasing competition.

"Competition will definitely be an issue, but to what extent I'm reluctant to say," said equity analyst J. Hingorani, who covers EMC at Standard & Poor's. But Hingorani is quick to add that VMware is probably the furthest ahead of its competitors, which include Virtual Iron Software and XenSource.

VMware's IPO could spark additional IPOs in the virtualization market. John Thibault, president and chief executive of Lowell, Mass.-based Virtual Iron, said an initial public offering is something the company will have to consider by the end of next year, or beginning of 2009.

Check Forbes for the rest of the story.

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