VMware, which has an 86-percent share of the server virtualization market for x86-based hardware, is not resting on its laurels. Instead, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, which had one of the most ...

SWsoft, a provider of both operating system and hardware virtualization products, has an interesting whitepaper titled "Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology". This ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft added the hypercall API for the Viridian hypervisor to the Open Specification Promise, a designation aimed at encouraging third party development which applies to a handful of ...

Rather than starting with server virtualization and looking up the technology stack, Oracle starts at the business application and looks down. In this way, Oracle can align its portfolio of business ...

Many of our past columns have centered on a recurring theme: increasing the value of IT without scaling cost, all while ensuring minimal risk to the business. In keeping with this theme, in this ...

Big Blue plans to provide essential plumbing for its utility computing vision later this year, when it debuts technology that uses its Power5 chip. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Server virtualization is hotter than hot, ignited by the technology’s use in creating a more compact, highly flexible and cost-efficient server infrastructure. Survey results from Forrester Research, ...

While it may sound like an exaggeration, containers require a fraction of the processing power of their VM counterparts. As ...

VMware, which created x86 server virtualization and is the dominant player in the market, is absolutely on fire. When EMC bought the company in 2003, VMware revenues were around $100 million a year.

Sun Microsystems Inc. next month plans to release the first commercial product in its xVM line of virtualization software: a server management console called xVM Ops Center. Ops Center is a virtual ...

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quest Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSFT) announced today it has acquired ChangeBASE, a privately held software provider based in the UK, which specializes in automated ...

In a recent press release, PlateSpin announced that they had won the 2007 "Virtualization Technology of the Year" award as part of The Banker Technology Awards. The Banker Technology Awards are backed ...