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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Xen, a “hypervisor,” is a thin layer of software that governs how different operating systems access computer resources, such as processors and memory. Virtualization software is used to draw more use ...

Virtualization has long been a cornerstone of state and local government IT. It helps agencies modernize infrastructure, optimize resources and support critical services without constantly expanding ...

Red Hat Inc. today introduced an entire line of virtualization software aimed at disrupting current market leader VMware Inc.’s position by giving customers an open-source option for virtualizing ...