Licencing sales and services revenue now each count for about half of VMware's business, it said. The company expects revenue for the first quarter -- the one that ends March 31 -- to be between US$800 million and $820 million
HP also rolled out a new storage array that scales to 2,000 small-form-factor drives. The HP 9000s are based on HP's now-defunct PA-RISC processor, and the newer Integrity servers use Intel Itanium chips
The company will no longer release binaries for Sun's open-source OS. Solaris 11 is the next major update to the Solaris operating system, which Oracle has said will be released next year
The sheet-metal structures can be built in four to six months and are highly energy efficient, HP says. The company came up with the idea after talking with some of its large customers