By running services in secure, isolated virtual machines, VMWare software helps save money while gaining greater flexibility and control over computing resources. An important innovation in the field of grid computing, and also in a climate of...
Intel Virtualization Technology - code-named Vanderpool and now emerging in server processors - accelerates some operations and makes it possible to run Windows on Xen without modifications to Windows that otherwise would be necessary.
We've made a long-term commitment to make sure that non-Windows operating systems can be run in a supported manner, both on top of Virtual Server and our future virtualization products," said Zane Adam, director of Windows Server product marketing...
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...
It remains to be seen whether it's a market (in which) VMware will be willing and interested to make the investments to really make this into a rock-solid production product. Replay lets VMware's software log the actions of software running in a...