Fresh off this year's hottest debut on Wall Street, trendsetting software maker VMware Inc. is hosting nearly 11,000 people clamoring to learn more about a computing twist that is turning into high-tech's next big jackpot.
- By The Associated Press
- September 12, 2007
Microsoft's new server virtualization product is on schedule -- albeit a delayed schedule -- and expects to make a community technology preview (CTP) available with the first release candidate of Windows Server 2008.
- By Keith Ward
- September 11, 2007
Yesterday, Microsoft released the next component in its growing virtualization product line, announcing the release to manufacturing (RTM) of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). General availability is expected in October.
- By Keith Ward
- September 07, 2007
(No, that's not a typo....)
- By Greg Shields
- August 27, 2007
Levanta is offering a virtual machine version of its Linux life-cycle management product that's similar to the company's flagship physical appliance. The product, called Intrepid VM Linux Management Appliance, is available as a free software download.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2007
Citrix Systems is buying XenSource Inc. for $500 million, marking the second big deal this week in thte virtualization segment.
- By The Associated Press
- August 15, 2007
VMware Inc.'s shares soared by 76 percent in their stock market debut Tuesday, reflecting a belief that the software maker is on the leading edge of a trend.
- By The Associated Press
- August 15, 2007
Another LinuxWorld San Francisco has come and gone. The event combined LinuxWorld with the inaugural Next Generation Data Center show, drawing an estimated 11,000 attendees last week.
- By John K. Waters
- August 14, 2007
Rapidly growing software maker VMware Inc. priced its initial public offering at $29 per share Monday, setting the stage for one of Silicon Valley's most anticipated stock market debuts since Google Inc. mesmerized Wall Street three years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- August 14, 2007
VMware has the latest entry in the growing market for software that allows Windows to be run on a Mac.
- By Keith Ward
- August 06, 2007
Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, will invest $218.5 million in virtualization software maker VMware Inc., the companies announced Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- July 09, 2007
North American software developers are expecting to devote less of their efforts toward developing for the Microsoft Windows operating system, with some of the slack being absorbed by Linux and niche operating systems, according to a survey conducted by Evans Data Corp.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 03, 2007
Virtualization rocketed to the top of the gotta-have-it technology list a few years ago, primarily as a means of consolidating servers. But since that initial resurgence, vendors have been finding other applications for the technologies that provide a layer of abstraction between hardware systems and the software running on them.
- By John K. Waters
- July 02, 2007
Identity management is gaining prominence as a way to authenticate users across multiple platforms.
- By David Doane
- July 01, 2007
A new August offering by virtual lab maker Surgient will add support for two key enterprise virtualization products: VMware ESX Server 3 and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.
- By Keith Ward
- June 28, 2007
Microsoft has done an about-face on virtualization licensing for Windows Vista and decided to maintain the status quo.
- By Keith Ward
- June 20, 2007
A key Microsoft virtualization product has gotten an important update.
- By Keith Ward
- June 12, 2007
Altiris has updated its virtualization software to work with Windows Vista. Symantec, which recently acquired Altiris, announced at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Orlando the release of the latest version -- 2.1 -- of its Altiris Software Virtualization Solution (SVS).
- By Keith Ward
- June 07, 2007
Want to toy around with Windows Vista or Vista with Visual Studio 2005 but not pay for them? Microsoft is making it possible through the magic of virtualization.
- By Keith Ward
- June 06, 2007
The software development life cycle is enhanced by virtualization. An overview of what you should consider.
- By John K. Waters
- May 15, 2007