Virtualization is unarguably one of the biggest trends of the past few years, and open-source software has been on the IT radar for a while now. So does that make open-source virtualization twice as ...

Open source efforts to make it easier for companies to virtualize data center resources, whether they are Linux- or Windows-based, will be on full display this week at the LinuxWorld Conference and ...

SWSoft is putting its virtualization software into the open source community with the introduction of the Server Virtualization Open Source Project, or OpenVZ, which is freely available at the OpenVZ ...

With virtualization now a mainstream technology for most large businesses, the big players like EMC (VMWare), IBM and Microsoft are investing heavily in proprietary options for running multiple guest ...

VirtualBox is often considered among the best virtual machine software available, particularly for users looking for a free and flexible solution. Its cross-platform support and open-source model make ...

Xen, an open-source project with growing ties to Red Hat, Novell and Hewlett-Packard, is emerging as the leading contender for providing open-source virtualization for the Linux environment. Ian Pratt ...

At the Boston show, HP Linux Vice President Martin Fink said HP Labs plans to open source some of its virtual machine management technology to the Xen open source project under the General Public ...

Wind River Open Virtualization Profile delivers extremely low latency that rates among the industry’s best, as well as high performance that rivals physical devices. Services can be run flexibly ...

VMware on Tuesday announced VMware View Open Client and claimed that it advances its vClient Initiative toward universal clients. The new software, available under the GNU Lesser GPL 2.1, enables IT ...

Virtualization software vendor VMware Inc. is teaming up with a host of leading IT companies to work on open virtualization standards, the company announced Monday. As part of those efforts, VMware ...