In a move clearly designed to strengthen its position in this segment, VMware has announced a new initiative dubbed the System Builder Program
IBM Corp. late last week touted the construction of two additional cloud computing datacenters -- an investment of $360 million -- which let it address what officials call "surging" demand for cloud computing resources.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/05/2008
Virtualization heralds a brave new world of security. Here are a few things to keep in mind when it comes to securing a virtual infrastructure.
- By Joern Wettern
- 08/01/2008
Don't let its looks fool you -- give it time and Hyper-V will be a contender for hypervisor dominance.
Next week at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, security researcher Joanna Rutkowska promises to demonstrate how a malicious attacker, working remotely, could take control of the open-source Xen virtualization software.
- By Joab Jackson
- 08/01/2008
Skytap’s Virtual Lab service lets developers subscribe to virtual machines
(VMs) and provides a VM image library and a virtual lab-management app.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/01/2008
Just how favorably does Hyper-V compare to established products from VMware Inc., Virtual Iron Inc. and Citrix Systems Inc., to name a few? How serious is Microsoft about competing in the virtual space?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/30/2008
Qumranet's CEO Benny Schnaider discusses his company's open source technology and the future of the virtualization market.
A first-quarter 2008 survey conducted by Computer Economics suggests a possible slowdown in IT spending and staffing lies ahead.
VMware has launched its first counter-attack to Microsoft's pricing structure for its virtualization products, announcing that ESXi, its lightweight hypervisor, is going to be given away for free.
Citrix has released details of a new tool that will speed virtual machine interoperability between hypervisors from Microsoft, VMware and its own offering.
New director of product management talks up database and hints at future technologies.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/16/2008
Diane Greene's precipitous and unexpected departure from VMware yesterday may have resulted from an ongoing rift between Greene and executives at parent company EMC, according to analysts.
In a move that sent shock waves across the virtualization market, VMware's board of directors announced that Diane Greene, the company's co-founder, president and CEO, will be replaced by Paul Maritz, a 14-year veteran of Microsoft and head of EMC's Cloud Division.
Researchers at VMware have pioneered a novel technique in dynamic analysis, one that separates the running program from the analysis tool, by use of virtual containers.
- By Joab Jackson
- 06/26/2008
Microsoft's first major push into the virtualization space officially kicks off today, as Hyper-V has been released to manufacturing (RTM).
Novell announced last Wednesday that it has joined Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program.
- By Chris Riedel
- 06/16/2008
Virtualization and development tools supplier Xenocode has released a suite of tools for adapting, configuring and delivering Win32- and Java-based applications within a free-standing, virtualized environment on the host Windows OS.
- By Michael Desmond
- 06/15/2008
IT pros wanting to try out the latest Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology can now get the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) version via Windows Update.
Last week, according to a blog post from Microsoft marketing team member Trika Harms zum Spreckel, the Microsoft Learning group introduced the first virtualization-based exam into beta testing.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/11/2008