virtualization.info first appeared online September 11, 2003. Over the last seven years, we’ve tracked the birth and the evolution of a completely new, billion dollar market, the rise and fall of over 100 vendors , and the mainstream adoption of this disruptive technology that is virtualization. In doing so, virtualization.info has been visited by millions of readers, from all continents, from all industries. Today most Fortune 500 and Global Fortune 2000 companies read our daily news, along with hundreds of thousands of smaller firms all around the globe, from US to Japan (did you know that Japan visits virtualization.info JP more than UK visits virtualization.info EN?). The evolution of this market is all but complete. Virtual infrastructures can mature in so many different areas, from orchestration to security, that we really have just started. While the industry continues to make progress in these segments, and prepares to enter the next big phase with application virtualization, another completely new, billion dollar market is forming these days: cloud computing. We want to track the birth and evolution of this market in the same way we did for virtualization. So today virtualization.info announces a sister publication: cloudcomputing.info While virtualization.info will continue to track hardware, OS and application virtualization technologies, cloudcomputing.info will focus on the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) markets. There will be some overlap around the IaaS market, as IaaS clouds are built on top of virtual infrastructures, and so you’ll see some cross-posting between the two sites. Beyond that, cloudcomputing.info will expand our coverage, discussing new vendors and technologies that didn’t find a place here so far. Feel free to visit the new website , subscribe the RSS feed or the email newsletter , follow the Twitter account , or like the Facebook page . We hope you’ll enjoy our expanded coverage at cloudcomputing.info. Thanks to everyone for their support of virtualization.info over the last seven years! P.s.: Just in case you are wondering: we are hiring writers, for both publications. If you are interested please send a resume and a writing sample . we are evaluating early sponsorships. If you are interested please send an inquiry .

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Xsigo Systems today announced that Xsigo Systems Japan partnered with Itochu Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) and Hitachi to jointly offer I/O virtualisation solutions to the Japanese market. The companies offer immediate availability of a jointly developed solution that will allow enterprise customers to rapidly implement cloud computing environments. The combined solution includes Hitachi… [[ This is a content summary only.

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Yesterday VMware announced its Q4 2009 earnings. During the call, besides the numbers that we report below, the company’s CEO Paul Maritz gave a couple of very interesting answers that hint at the future steps the company will take in terms of acquisitions and new products. Despite the whole 2009 license revenue declined 13% ($304M in Q4), the company reported a nice 8% growth and beated analysts estimates . The software maintenance portion of our services revenues was $246 million, up 53% compared to last year, while professional services revenue was $58 million, up 47% from last year. VMware also announced almost 20,000 new customers won in the second half of 2009.

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