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 ...

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 ...

Open source efforts to make it easier for companies to virtualize data center resources, whether they are Linux- or Windows-based, will be on full display this week at the LinuxWorld Conference and ...

VirtualBox is often considered among the best virtual machine software available, particularly for users looking for a free and flexible solution. Its cross-platform support and open-source model make ...

Wind River Open Virtualization Profile delivers extremely low latency that rates among the industry’s best, as well as high performance that rivals physical devices. Services can be run flexibly ...

Xen, an open-source project with growing ties to Red Hat, Novell and Hewlett-Packard, is emerging as the leading contender for providing open-source virtualization for the Linux environment. Ian Pratt ...

With virtualization now a mainstream technology for most large businesses, the big players like EMC (VMWare), IBM and Microsoft are investing heavily in proprietary options for running multiple guest ...

At the Boston show, HP Linux Vice President Martin Fink said HP Labs plans to open source some of its virtual machine management technology to the Xen open source project under the General Public ...

Not surprisingly, some of the most interesting progress around virtualization is happening in open source. There has been quite a bit of excitement around Xen making its way into popular Linux distros ...