Javier Soltero, CTO of applications and SaaS for VMware and Kevin Henrickson, who worked on Zimbra, both signed on with Redpoint Ventures.

Two VMware executives have left to join Redpoint Ventures to help the firm extend its reach into the enterprise and mobile markets. Their leaving marks a string of recent VMware departures, following the Pivotal spinout of several of the two companies’ product groups. Both executives joining Redpoint had important roles at VMware. Javier Soltero  was responsible for driving advanced development ...

VMware caught the IT industry's attention when it acquired software-defined networking start-up Nicira for $1.2 billion in July last year.The move kickstarted the virtualisation giant's strategic rebranding around the 'software-defined data centre', which looks to virtualise all IT infrastructure so that computing, networking and storage can be delivered as a service in software to the business on demand.Virtualisation has for ...

Improvements to Nvidia's virtualization technology are aimed at turning graphics processors into a more important resource in data centers and could speed deployment of virtual desktops and delivery of data over the cloud. The graphics company Tuesday announced improvements to its VGX technology, which virtualizes the GPU and makes it a resource that can be shared with CPUs and memory ...

VMware finds a way to wring more cash out of virtualization customers.