SWSoft is putting its virtualization software into the open source community with the introduction of the Server Virtualization Open Source Project, or OpenVZ, which is freely available at the OpenVZ ...

Virtualization is unarguably one of the biggest trends of the past few years, and open-source software has been on the IT radar for a while now. So does that make open-source virtualization twice as ...

Open source tools can provide various benefits that proprietary products sometimes lack, such as improvements in flexibility and agility, speed, costs and security. Admins can find open source options ...

Seven need-to-know points when looking at open source virtualization technology. Virtualization is a hot data center technology that is capturing the attention of IT for its consolidation and cost ...

Born back in 2008 and hailing from Austria, Proxmox Virtual Environment (often abbreviated as PVE) is based on Debian, and its purpose is to provide a management platform for virtual machines that use ...

Symantec Corp.’s storage arm, Veritas, announced today that it has combined its online storage management software with Citrix Systems Inc.’s Xen Hypervisor to develop an x86 server virtualization ...

You don't have to use proprietary virtualization software to run virtual machines. The open source community boasts offerings for all different virtualization needs, so you can assemble a program that ...

Sun plans to release the code for its open source server-virtualization software Wednesday, and will make a commercial version of the xVM Server available next month. xVM Server can virtualize Windows ...

Modern virtualization platforms like Xen and KVM have leveraged the work of QEMU projects to get a technological jump start Survey 100 people across the virtualization community and ask them to name a ...

The move comes less than a month after Oracle said it plans to acquire Sun Microsystems in a $7.4 billion bid. Virtual Iron, of Lowell, Mass., is a developer of server virtualization products, ...