Traditionally found only in the data center, hypervisors are branching out into new territory: laptops. There, hypervisors' advantages are coming into sharper focus.
Linux developer Red Hat believes open source is the future of virtualization, but are its new platform and hypervisor too late?
As a software company, there's only so much green Microsoft can spread -- but Redmond is a good place to start.
The future of desktop virtualization may hinge on display protocols. VMware and Citrix take different paths: Which company is likely to win?
While most companies in IT are hoping to just ride out the recession storm, those in the virtualization space are finding clearer skies.
As virtualization's popularity grows, so, too, does the presence of virtualization vendors at Microsoft's annual Tech-Ed North America conference. This year's show promises to feature more of them than ever, giving attendees the chance to sample more virtualization technologies.
Is there really a performance difference between hypervisors from VMware, Microsoft and Citrix? We put them under a microscope and stress-tested them for days to find out the answer.
- By Rick Vanover
- 03/02/2009
Microsoft's virtualization management offering gets the job done.
This University of Maryland admin got tired of fixing end-user computers. So he ripped them all out and replaced them with little silver boxes.
An easy-to-follow interface combined with the Application Sync and Application Link features makes ThinApp a winner for both VMware and its customers.
- By Kevin Da Silva
- 03/01/2009
Reflex Systems' VMC is a useful and feature-rich product that offers security and lifecycle management for VMware environments.
Virtualization isn't just for software; processors need to be virtualization-aware, too. To that end, Intel and AMD are pushing the boundaries of what you can do on a chip.
Bluestripe Software tackles the problem of "applications visibility" with a solution that triangulates performance between hosts, applications and VMs.
Abstracting user "personality" is an important consideration in pooled resource VDI deployments. Here's how one start-up is looking to capitalize.
Other IT segments virtualization skills is that the number of jobs is actually increasing -- and at a healthy rate.
VMware makes a play for mobile market share.
eG Innovations takes on the daunting challenge of VM performance monitoring.
Citrix Systems' XenDesktop is a state-of-the-art product for hosted desktop virtualization and may be the gold standard by which other products are judged in a feature-for-feature comparison. Here's a look at the capabilities, options and feature sets available with this product, as well as how to install, set up and configure it in the data center.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 01/01/2009
The three companies are getting ready to rumble over ownership of the hypervisor cloud.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 01/01/2009
VMware wants to own your data center. The key? The Virtual Datacenter Operating System.