Jon Brodkin

As Paul Maritz spreads leadership responsibilities, three of VMware's top five officials are now ex-Microsoft executives

The HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance is available this week. The big appliance is advertised as 200 times faster and 10 times more scalable than traditional SQL Server deployments. A counter move to Oracle

A Net Applications report says the rise of smart phones and tablets threatens Microsoft hegemony. The OS sits at 90.29 per cent market share compared to 93.74 per cent in February 2009

The mobile hypervisor will separate corporate and personal data. The technology will work much like a server or desktop hypervisor

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 scored an early victory when the first round of HTML5 compatibility tests from the World Wide Web Consortium had IE9 topping Google Chrome. But the World Wide Web Consortium is warning against drawing any conclusions based on early tests

Microsoft on Tuesday will unveil the first developer preview of "Denali," the next major release of SQL Server, and will start shipping a data warehouse appliance stemming from its 2008 acquisition of DATAllegro

A VMware survey also found that SAP and Oracle apps are still predominately run on physical machines

Microsoft released the second service pack for SQL Server 2008 this week, with support for up to 15,000 database partitions, updates to reporting and management tools, and integration with SharePoint 2010