Virtualisation
Virtual Linux, coming to a desktop near you
by David M Williams   

Virtualisation is on the brink of turning operating systems into a commodity item. It may be realistic to see software applications shipped as virtual computer images in the near future. Linux has much to benefit from this, with a repeat of the phenomenal adoption rate it has enjoyed since the ASUS Eee PC.

 
VMware gives its ESXi Hypervisor away for free
by Davey Winder   
Virtualisation is certainly one of the hot technologies of the moment, and VMware is certainly at the top of the vendor tree. Today it announced a grand plan to help cement that position in the face of emerging competition from the likes of Microsoft: giving away its number one Hypervisor product for free...

 
Symantec opens Virtualisation Solutions Lab in Japan
by Davey Winder   
Symantec has today announced the opening of a new 'Virtualisation Solutions Labs' in Japan as part of an ongoing global virtualisation strategy...

 
Putting the Squeeze on Microsoft's Virtual PC
by Tony Austin   
Virtualization is all the rage these days. As well as the advantages, there are things to be watched and managed. Virtualized systems can grow and consume excessive system resources. Here are some test results about a way of reducing disk space (and other things) used by Microsoft Virtual PC running on a desktop system.
 
Virtualisation for the home is a missed opportunity
by Stan Beer   
While enterprises focus on using virtualisation to cut costs through consolidating servers in the data centres, the home and consumer desktop space has been largely ignored. But is it important for home users to have virtualisation on the desktop?

 
Virtualisation virgin pitfalls for the bottom line
by Mike Bantick   
There are many good reasons for companies to virtualise environments, but make sure you do your homework, planning and don’t believe everything consultants tell you.  A virtualisation case study of how to avoid cost blowouts follows.

 
VMware goes to university, 40 of them
by Stuart Corner   
Through the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT) more than 40 universities in Australia and New Zealand have implemented VMware's virtualisation technology.

 
Virtualisation for profit: sell your spare server capacity
by Stuart Corner   
German company Zimory has launched what it claims to be the world's first online marketplace where organisations can buy and sell processing capacity on their virtualised data centre servers.

 
VMware blames Apple for Fusion corruption
by Stephen Withers   
A bug in Mac OS X can cause loss of data in VMware Fusion virtual machines, company officials have warned. Fusion is VMware's virtualisation product for Mac OS X.

 
Citrix announces “virtual machines on any hypervisor” project
by Alex Zaharov-Reutt   
Citrix, the newest player to enter the hypervisor space when it acquired XenSource in October 2007, has unveiled “Project Kensho”, designed to make virtual machines portable across the major hypervisor platforms, including XenServer from Citrix, VMware's ESX and Microsoft's recently released Hyper-V.

 
Will hypervisors make Ubuntu and other Linux operating systems obsolete?
by David M Williams   
Computing is on the verge of a major paradigm shift with the modern rise in prominence of virtualisation. Fuelled by big corporates interested in the consolidation and energy saving potentials, improvements in virtualisation have hit the point where Linux could be a casualty.
 
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