Stories about: XenSource

Standards wars, such as the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD battle, can keep many potential users on the sidelines until a winner is declared. Virtualization software vendors are trying to avoid just such a battle over the adoption of virtual appliances.

Red Hat released a beta version of a Linux-based hypervisor Wednesday that can be loaded onto servers and desktop computers with a flash drive.

The virtualized "desktop 2.0" is about to kill once and for all the idea that a PC needs to be a physical device, Citrix CEO Mark Templeton has predicted.

The old cliche about 'lies, damned lies and statistics' applies perfectly to the numbers being bandied about by the three main application virtualization vendors: Citrix, Microsoft and VMware.

There are certain popular system architectures that transcend the operating system and will turn your efforts to build a green network operating system brown, figuratively speaking.

As enterprises seek out ways to reduce IT costs, optimize resources and improve operational efficiencies, three technology trends have started to dominate: virtualization, service-oriented architecture and mobility. More promising yet is the intertwining of these unique technologies.

Following all the hype surrounding Citrix's $US500 million acquisition of virtualization software vendor XenSource late last year, the local operations is now fully equipped to service and support local buyers.

Citrix has announced the first upgrades to the Xen server virtualisation products since completing the acquisition of XenSource last October.

Virtualization will have the single largest impact on budgets for IT hardware and support over the next three years, a market that will be dominated by three large vendors, says a new study.

A rash of hypervisor virtualization announcements recently from Microsoft, Oracle and Sun signal the game is on to beat down leader VMware and jump in the corporate virtualization revolution.

Microsoft has announced that a key API of its hypervisor technology will be open sourced.