Citrix aims to beat VMware at virtualization. A year ago it bought XenSource, the company created by the founders of the Xen open-source hypervisor, and switched the Citrix business focus to ...

Attempting to maintain its leadership in virtual-machine software, company agrees to share code with partners such as IBM and HP. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Xen does the vast majority of what people want to do with virtualization. It doesn’t have some of the advanced functionality of VMware, but the bulk of the functionality that people need is there. I ...

ATLANTA, Feb. 23, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Datacenter operators now have greater flexibility to migrate VMware, Xen and Hyper-V virtual servers with the latest DynaCenter image-based provisioning and ...

I'm finding myself increasingly often in the situation of needing "scratch systems" to test things on, work with complex .deb packages, etc.<BR><BR>I'm wondering what general opinion on emulation ...

I am beginning to prep my current desktop to be a server to host some various guest OS's (Win, Linux, hell maybe OSX) so I can keep up to date with some of the latest and greatest out there now that ...

Things don’t always go smoothly when you try to mix the world of open-source with the world of proprietary commercial software. Sometimes those worlds collide. All too often, proprietary vendors are ...

Ten years ago the argument over virtualization would have been a short one because VMware was the only game in town, but that early dominance is now being significantly challenged by Microsoft, Citrix ...

Last Friday I went to the College IT Conference, which is an annual get-together of college IT managers from Oxford and Cambridge universities. Note that these are the IT managers at the residential ...

VMware made two moves Monday to try to maintain its leadership in the market for virtual-machine software--potentially at the expense of two rivals, Microsoft and the open-source Xen project. First, ...