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 ...

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 ...

Savings are a big factor in the move to open-source virtualization, but so is the ability to tweak the software to suit specific requirements Virtualization is unarguably one of the biggest trends of ...

In 2014, companies and open source programmers alike are working as hard as they can to virtualize hardware into software. The latest example of this is Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The ...

A new version of the open source Xen virtualization stack was released last week, offering up improved support for 64-bit systems, improved virtual server maintenance tools, and a new API for Xen ...

Xen 3.0 ships with features aimed at corporate customers, including high-end server support and an administration tool. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that its NexentaConnect for Citrix XenDesktop ® ...

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Red Hat embraced the virtualization market some time ago, starting with the open source Xen technology as part of the company’s Enterprise Linux operating system. After focusing a lot of attention on ...

Having enacted multiple internal security checks on the open source software (OSS) it uses, Google Cloud will offer a safe OSS service featuring those wares. The Assured Open Source Software service ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...