One of the great things about virtualization is that it makes it incredibly easy to add a new server -- or 10, or 100 new servers.
Citrix CEO Mark Templeton says his company's acquisition of virtualization vendor XenSource has created a fast-growing joint channel for partners as well.
Although 54 percent of large enterprises around the globe rate management of their virtual server environment as a critical or high IT priority, fewer than half (45 percent) think their companies are doing it effectively, according to CA's global survey about virtualized environments released this week.
- By James E. Powell
- 02/21/2008
Sun Microsystems yesterday announced plans to purchase German software developer innotek, the maker of VirtualBox, a set of open source x86 virtualization tools for home and enterprise users.
A global enterprise virtualization survey released today confirms that virtualization is becoming stronger and stronger in the enterprise, with server virtualization leading the wave.
Microsoft reversed an earlier decision that would have forced IT pros to wait until mid-March to get their hands on Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
Late last week, Canonical Ltd. announced that Ubuntu users will now be able to access the Parallels Workstation virtualization software through the Ubuntu Partner Repository.
Virtualization took center stage again last week, as both IBM and Sun unveiled ambitious new virtual offerings
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/07/2008
This week Parallels Inc. announced the general release of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0, a new version of its server virtualization software for data centers.
Manipulate how your VMs work using the vmrun command.
- By Greg Shields
- 01/22/2007
The ZXTM Virtual Appliance provides load balancing and traffic management within the virtual network infrastructure.
Sneak a peek at the contents of your virtual drives.
- By Greg Shields
- 01/15/2007
A three-part look at VMware command-line tools. First up: vdiskmanager.exe
- By Greg Shields
- 01/08/2007
VMware puts on a stellar
virtualization performance with its latest version of Workstation.
- By Jeremy Moskowitz
- 08/01/2005
EMC's virtual machine software edges out Microsoft's in overall features.
- By Jeremy Moskowitz
- 08/01/2004