The VirtuOS technology also will compete with virtualisation technology from Microsoft and EMC subsidiary VMware. But in that situation, operating systems run on each server instead of spanning several, requiring that higher-level software be...
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VMware has been busily assembling cross-industry alliances to protect its leadership in the market for virtual-machine software as it faces up to competition from Microsoft and the open source Xen project.
VMware and several business partners have begun an initiative called the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance to try to replace individual PCs with virtual machines on a much smaller number of servers.
Virtualisation has been a feature on higher-end servers for years and has arrived on mainstream x86 machines chiefly through software from EMC's VMware subsidiary. Xen lacks VMware's market power but the open source software is being incorporated...