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The sidewalks were still jammed around San Francisco’s Moscone Center and the wonderment of an Oracle hardware announcement was still palpable across the IT infrastructure universe late last week. I sat down with two executives, from HP and Oracle, to get the early deep-dive briefing on the duo’s Exadata appliance shocker. Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison caught the Oracle OpenWorld conference audience by surprise the day before by rolling out the Exadata line of two hardware-software configurations.

Oracle’s Hardware Gambit

Web 2.0 technologies offer more opportunities than just sharing information with friends and family on Facebook or uploading user-generated videos on YouTube. The tools that help enable conversations between people on the Internet can also help corporations get closer to their customers. ECT News Network interviewer Renay San Miguel talks to Kumar Vora, Adobe Systems vice president for product strategy and enterprise marketing, about cost efficiencies enabled by Web 2.0.

Adobe Systems’ Kumar Vora on Empowering Customers

Microsoft announced Tuesday it is easing licensing restrictions for server applications. Companies will no longer be required to pay additional fees to move software within a server farm, the company said. The move is an attempt to remove barriers in order for its enterprise customers to develop more dynamic data centers and enterprise IT systems using virtualization software, according to the software maker. The revamped licensing is Microsoft’s response to the growth of virtualization in enterprises, said Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates.

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Virtualization Reality Spurs Microsoft to Change Licensing Rules

A glitch in VMware’s most recent update had customers scrambling this week. A problem caused by a bug from the beta version of the software that engineers failed to remove or deactivate left VMware users unable to power on virtual machines running the hypervisor software. The bug, also known as a “time bomb,” is code that developers insert in beta software to push users to upgrade to an application’s final version. It’s a commonly used tool for developers; however, it must be removed from anything into which it has been inserted prior to final release.

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Virtual ‘Time Bomb’ Blasts VMware Systems

In his keynote speech at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, Simon Crosby, Chief Technology Officer for Citrix Systems, announced the company’s plan to open source Project Kensho, a set of tools that will help migrate virtual machines between different hypervisors and virtualization platforms. I sat down with Crosby, who joined Citrix from XenSource, where he had been chief technology officer prior to its acquisition by Citrix. We discussed the role of open source software in virtualization and how virtualization contributes to cloud computing.

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Citrix Systems’ Simon Crosby: Xen and the Art of Cloud Computing