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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seven need-to-know points when looking at open source virtualization technology. Virtualization is a hot data center technology that is capturing the attention of IT for its consolidation and cost ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) East earlier this month, several of these companies detailed their use of open-source projects as well as open and de facto standards to accelerate ...

Modern virtualization platforms like Xen and KVM have leveraged the work of QEMU projects to get a technological jump start Survey 100 people across the virtualization community and ask them to name a ...

Red Hat was surprised by this finding from its new report on open source software in the enterprise: It's now seen as a benefit, when it was a big security problem not that long ago. "It takes a lot ...

In a previous article, I discussed some of the basic features of network access control (NAC) systems. While there are many commercial vendors of NAC systems, turning to an open-source product can ...