Virtualization industry leader VMware, already facing challenges on multiple fronts, took another body blow last night when Chief Scientist Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, a company co-founder, resigned.
- By Keith Ward
- September 09, 2008
Microsoft, following its earlier announcement about new virtualization products and imminent releases, has filled in some details that give more shape to its vision.
- By Keith Ward
- September 08, 2008
Microsoft kicked off its virtualization push with a number of product announcements, including a key virtual management tool.
- By Keith Ward
- September 07, 2008
Sun Microsystems this week rolled out version 2.0 of its xVM VirtualBox.
- By David Nagel
- September 05, 2008
Open source server distributor Red Hat Inc., which is carving out a virtualization path unique in the industry, added another arrow to its quiver today with the acquisition of Qumranet Inc.
- By Keith Ward
- September 04, 2008
The open source hypervisor Xen has a new version, 3.3, that includes a number of upgrades and enhancements that make it more enterprise-worthy and start to move it beyond the datacenter.
- By Keith Ward
- August 27, 2008
Citrix Systems has upped the competitive ante by adding a new set of performance-related features to its flagship XenApp product.
- By Tom Valovic
- August 25, 2008
Microsoft has made substantial changes to its virtualization licensing program, changes that will lower the cost of using virtualization for many customers.
- By Keith Ward
- August 19, 2008
Yesterday, August 12, was a blow-out day for some users of VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 virtualization products, especially if they had applied the latest product updates called "Update 2."
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 13, 2008
Microsoft announced a launch event for its virtualization products, scheduled for Sept. 8, 2008 in Bellevue, Wash.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 12, 2008
VMware joined the Linux Foundation on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 07, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. -- IBM made several announcements Tuesday at the annual LinuxWorld conference, introducing a new series of products, services and initiatives that the company says will "further expand IBM's commitment to Linux and open source by enabling the next generation of Linux."
- By John K. Waters
- August 06, 2008
In a move clearly designed to strengthen its position in this segment, VMware has announced a new initiative dubbed the System Builder Program
- By Tom Valovic
- August 05, 2008
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
- August 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
- July 30, 2008
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.
- By Keith Ward
- July 22, 2008
Microsoft's fiscal fourth-quarter and 2008 year-end financial results were announced in a Webcast on Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 18, 2008
Microsoft quietly opened its Live Mesh preview to more testers on July 15, but by today (July 17), the offer had been narrowed to just waiting-list only.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 17, 2008
Microsoft's Chief Architect Ray Ozzie and some say the sky will be the limit for cloud computing in the enterprise, but there's still a need for IT security too.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- July 16, 2008
New director of product management talks up database and hints at future technologies.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 16, 2008