VMware (NYSE: VMW) Announced Second-Quarter 2008 Reports Results.
By Ellen Tate | July 22, 2008
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2008 which include revenues for the second quarter were $456 million, an increase of 54% from the second quarter of 2007. GAAP operating income for the second quarter was $61 million, compared to $47 million for the same period last year. Non-GAAP operating income was $112 million, an increase of 52% from the second quarter of 2007. GAAP net income for the quarter was $52 million, or $0.13 per diluted share, compared to $34 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2007. Non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $92 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, compared to $52 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2007. Cash exceeded $1.5 billion and deferred revenue was $721 million as of June 30, 2008.
Second quarter U.S. revenues grew 43% to $240 million from the second quarter of 2007. International revenues grew 68% to $216 million from the second quarter of 2007 driven by strength in Europe and Australia.
Software license revenue grew 39% to $284 million from second quarter of 2007. Service revenues, which include support, subscription and professional services, were $172 million, an increase of 85% from the second quarter of 2007.
“VMware had another solid quarter, proving that the quality of our products and the immediate return on investment that they yield is delivering high value to customers,” said Paul Maritz, president and chief executive officer of VMware. “I am personally excited to become part of a company that has the potential to become one of the truly important and enduring companies in the software industry.”
“Our mission is to help customers run datacenters that use powerful, cost-effective, modern hardware to deliver dramatically higher levels of flexibility, manageability and efficiency. Today, much of our growth comes from customers expanding from basic server consolidation, yet increasingly more customers are seeking to virtualize their entire datacenter and desktop environments with VMware Infrastructure. We are also on the threshold of a major new opportunity – as customers begin to leverage VMware as both the on-ramp to the Cloud and for key elements of the Cloud itself. We are well-positioned to become a truly strategic platform for businesses of all sizes.”
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VMware “Infrastructure 3″ Wins Best of Tech Ed 2008 in Virtualization Category
By Ellen Tate | July 22, 2008
VMware, Inc., (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that VMware Infrastructure 3, the industry-leading virtualization and management suite, was named the winner of the Best of Tech Ed 2008 IT Professional Award in the virtualization category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. The winners were announced at the Tech Ed 2008 IT Professionals Conference in Orlando, Florida last month. More information is available at www.WindowsITPro.com/awards.
The Best of Tech Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards recognize companies who offer the most innovative products in the industry and who are leading the charge in their category. Entrants were judged based on strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage, and value to customers. The judges reviewed more than 220 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 29 finalists, from which one winner was selected for each of the 10 categories.
“Choosing from such a wide variety of outstanding entries is a challenge every year, and the quality of this year’s entries was particularly high,” said Karen Forster, group editorial and strategy director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. “The winners clearly reflect our judging criteria: innovation, strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage and exceptional value to customers.”
VMware Infrastructure 3 provides the capability for automatic load balancing, business continuity and power management and the ability to move a virtual machine across physical machines to minimize service interruption. With more than 200 industry and technology awards, VMware is the only vendor delivering the full spectrum of virtualization products — from a base hypervisor platform to a bundle of application and infrastructure management solutions to full suites of desktop and datacenter virtualization solutions.
“We are thrilled to be honored by the Windows IT Pro Best of Tech Ed Awards,” said Raghu Raghuram, vice president, product and solutions, VMware. “This award underscores our industry leadership in providing virtualization solutions that drive customer benefits. It also validates why thousands of companies rely on VMware Infrastructure to optimize their datacenters, streamline management, improve application performance, and maximize ROI. We look forward to raising the bar even further to bring our customers game-changing IT solutions.”
More information about Windows IT Pro Best of Tech Ed Awards is available at http://windowsitpro.com/awards/.
More information about VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 is available at http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/overview.html.
About Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro
Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, has Windows IT Pro as its flagship print publication. Windows IT Pro also includes SQL Server Magazine and Office SharePoint Pro. The Windows IT Pro network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its Web sites each month, and more than one million subscribers who opt-in to one or more email newsletters. Windows IT Pro is the world’s leading producer of custom road shows, paid conferences, and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT and developer professionals. For more information visit: www.windowsitpro.com.
About VMware
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2007 revenues of $1.3 billion, more than 100,000 customers and nearly 14,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies. Based in Palo Alto, California, VMware is majority-owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) and on the web at www.vmware.com.
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Dedicated hosting provider “The Planet”, added a new server to its “Ready To Go Solutions”
By Tammi Parker | July 18, 2008
The Planet dedicated servers web hosting provider a privately held dedicated hosting company, now offering a new addition to its line of ‘Ready To Go Servers”, the new server has Xeon 3210-SAS, equipped with a 146GB hard drive and 2GB RAM.
These servers are available in one hour as one of Planet Alpha’s Ready To Go Servers, it is also including the new version of CentOS-5 operating system on all Ready To Go Servers with no additional charges. Also, customers now can have the option to operate the servers with or without the cPanel-brand control panel.
”Our rapid server-provisioning time is one of the chief reasons people choose The Planet for their hosting solutions. The combination of our vast inventory and automated provisioning system allows us to make servers available in just one hour. By expanding our line of popular Ready To Go Servers, our customers have even more options when they require a high-performance box that must be up-and-running quickly.” said Urvish Vashi, Director of Product Management.
The Planet endeavors to provide high level of network and speed for peak performance, instant scalability to handle large spikes of traffic, redundant, parallel, multi-tiered network routing and switching architecture for maximum stability and reliability also multiple layer network security protecting from (DDOS) attacks that harm.
The Planet dedicated server provider are the leaders of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, they are hosting more than 22,000 businesses and 6.7 million web site, they are using the best hardware, software tools and technical support with state-of-the-art data centers and networks.
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Web hosting provider VEXXHOST introduces free site builder
By Donald Weaver | July 14, 2008
Online web hosting service provider VEXXHOST introduced a new free site builder for all their current and future clients. Their new site builder features over 470 templates and over 20 flash templates for any type of website, with a promise to deliver 15 extra web site templates per month and it also includes a collection of around 3000 images that can be used on the website or the choice of uploading your own pictures. The site builder also has extras component features like photo album, Form-Mail, online counter, page effect, guest book and much more. This site builder also fully integrated to cPanel which makes it very easy to manage by customers. It also supports PHP, JavaScript and Applet.
VEXXHOST has set up a demo of their site builder at http://sitebuilder.vexxhost.net/, anyone can create an account and try out the free site builder and buy a web hosting plan directly with the website they built.
VEXXHOST web hosting is a company that provides web hosting and domain registration services based in Montreal, Canada. They are located in their own privately managed datacenter in downtown Montreal and operate their own private multi-homed network which makes it one of the best locations for web site hosting in North America. VEXXHOST offers a wide array of services from shared to reseller to virtual & dedicated hosting, they also register domain names. To visit VEXXHOST website go to http://vexxhost.com
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Dedicated & Managed web hosting provider The Planet introduces new websites & brands
By Ellen Tate | July 13, 2008
The Planet dedicated web hosting provider which is one of the largest privately held dedicated & managed web hosting providers have introduced their new website alongside with 2 new brands which are “Planet Alpha” & “Planet Northstar”, their corporate “The Planet” name remains used for the main corporate brand. Their “Planet Alpha” brand holds their dedicated servers line and “Planet Northstar” holds their managed hosting which were both previously held by the main “The Planet” brand.
“Planet Alpha”, a brand of “The Planet” is now holding all their dedicated services; they still have the same old configurations which are either single CPU, single or dual core & dual CPU, dual or quad cores. Their prices have remained the same and still remain to be the best price value for their premium datacenter and bandwidth. They are currently offering big discounts on their current dedicated server line with the launch of their new website which makes them one of the very reasonable options for premium hosting. For the more complex applications requiring clusters or managed web hosting, The Planet has introduced the “Planet Northstar” brand.
The Planet remains one of the top privately held premium internet service providers, operating their own private 155,000 square feet datacenter at the moment with another 12,000 square feet ready for expansion. They are considered one of the top-end premium providers with N+1 power generators, N+2 redundant HVAC systems and connecting to tier-1 network providers such as AT&T (NYSE:T), AboveNet, NTT (NYSE:NTT), Savvis (NASDAQ:SVVS), Global Crossing (NASDAQ:GLBC), Level 3 (NASDAQ:LVLT), Time Warner Telecom (NASDAQ:TWTC).
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Yahoo Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:YHOO) introduces BOSS
By Alice Young | July 11, 2008
Yahoo major shift: BOSS “Build Your Own Search Service”. Yahoo positions its search engine for others to innovate or roll into their own products.
Yahoo is making this major shift in its battle to beat Google and Microsoft by giving its search to others.
“We want to disrupt the market,” Bill Michels, Yahoo’s senior director told InternetNews.com. “We see a lack of innovation in search experiences on the Web and BOSS is our method of breaking that down and opening up the market to innovation.”
“The thinking is it’s no longer our product and not necessarily indicative of how we do search,” Michels said. He added that Yahoo plans to continue to invest in its own search infrastructure and technology with its standard branding.
“Anyone can come in and build products off this,” Michels said. “There are no restrictions in how you present results or blend the rankings with your own custom content. Usually, search companies don’t let you mess with their rankings. This is unprecedented.”
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VMware, Inc. (Public, NYSE:VMW), Completes Acquisition of B-hive Networks
By Gary Quill | July 10, 2008
VMware Inc, a provider of virtualization solutions Leverages the B-hive technology and team to enhance its portfolio of infrastructure management and application products.
VMware announced that it has completed the acquisition of B-hive Networks. B-hive is privately-held performance application management Software Company. Its headquarters in San Mateo, California, and principal R&D facilities located at Herzliya, Israel. VMware claims that it had announced a definitive agreement to acquire B-hive on 28-05-2008.
VMware also says that with this acquisition, it will leverage the B-hive technology and team to improve its portfolio of infrastructure management and application products by offering proactive performance management and service level reporting for applications running within the virtual machines. VMware explains that B-hive technology brings insight into the performance of applications and the ability to automate changes using the company’s datacenter virtualization and management suite, VMware Infrastructure, to reallocate resources as needed to ensure service level objectives. In addition, with this acquisition, B-hive’s R&D facility and team will form the core of the VMware’s new development center located in Israel.
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Host Color Web Hosting Fourth of July Celebration
By James Stickles | July 4, 2008
For the national holiday Host Color web hosting company will add a free domain to its all shared web hosting plans. Every customer who signs-up for a hosting account with the host between 4th and 11th of July will get a free domain name with Independence Day .US extension. Also with this promotion Host Color also launches a special coupon code “USA” which gives 20% discount for shared hosting services.
Alexander Avramov, Marketing Director for Host Color said “Fourth of July is all about the feeling of a great community and sharing, that’s why we invite all Americans to join our successful community of website owners and to celebrate online with us”.
Host Color also added some other useful software applications to its PowerTools, the company’s branded auto-installer software. Web host’s customers can deploy with one click in their web hosting control panels PHP Fusion CMS, Simple Machines Forum and Moodle CMS.
About Host Color:
Host Color LLC is a United State web hosting provider incorporated in Delaware. Host Color powers thousands of personal websites and small business in data centers in South Bend, Indiana, US and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Web Hosting Provider, A2Hosting Now Supporting Magento E-Commerce
By Jessica Martin | July 4, 2008
A2Hosting web hosting provider, a linux based web hosting company, announced that its web hosting packages will now support Magento. A2Hosting states that Magento which is created by Varien, offers tools to manage every facet of the creation and the nurturing of an e-commerce website; from the control of the site via Magento’s shopping cart, the handling of product shipments, writing product reviews and more. It adds that each A2Hosting shared, reseller and semi-dedicated hosting package is stocked with everything needed to use Magento as an e-store solution.
The company claims that Magento was developed around the key concept of flexibility. Some of these flexible features that A2Hosting customers will enjoy include:
* Ability for customers to rate and evaluate products for future customers to read
* Flexible coupon options
* Control of multiple stores from one administration panel
* Customer option to ship to multiple addresses without completing multiple orders
* Single page checkout leading to higher conversion rates
Bryan Muthig, CEO of A2 Hosting, commented on the release: “Anytime we can offer our customers the latest tools necessary to allow them to succeed, we are happy to do so. We are excited to offer support for the hybrid e-commerce capabilities of Magento in addition to our other shopping cart solutions.”
A2Hosting web hosting provider with its headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, A2 Hosting, Inc is a web hosting company focused on satisfying customers’ needs by giving a full service provider of web and internet hosting services. Their range of services include affordable hosting for personal homepages
up to full service solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Their flexibility allows them to design a solution specific to clients need and within a good price range. They support a wide range of internet technologies including PHP, Perl, Ruby, MySQL and Postgres databases, SSL and more.
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The Planet “dedicated hosting company “are expanding its Dallas Data Center
By James Stickles | July 2, 2008
A privately held dedicated hosting company, The Planet, today announced the expansion of the Dallas D6 data center. They states that this addition will add about 12,000 square feet to the company’s existing data center, bringing its total footprint to 167,000 square feet. The new data center is expected to be open in November 2008. The expanded data center will be able to accommodate up to 10,000 servers.
The Planet adds that the new space will feature an energy-efficient design that utilizes improved measures to completely separate hot and cold air. This will improve the data center’s “coefficient of efficiency” to about 1.5. The coefficient of efficiency is an EPA- and Uptime Institute-recognized measurement of the total power necessary to operate a data center divided by the critical power, which is the energy required to operate its computers. The “ideal” ranking is 1.6.
The Planet further explains that the enhancement of the energy-efficient measures include extending the returns of the computer room air conditioning units through the ceiling and utilizing the space above the ceiling as a return air path. By using CPI ducted exhaust cabinets in the new phase, it says that it is taking the next steps beyond traditional “hot aisle-cold aisle” setups to completely isolate the hot and cold air in the data center.
The Planet’s Vice President of Facilities Jeff Lowenberg said “As energy costs continue to climb, operating our data centers at peak performance is absolutely critical, both to our company and to our customers,” he also added “Our goal is to use best practices and a practical approach to optimize our operations.”
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