More Virtualization News

VMware buys desktop management company Wanova

VMware has acquired Wanova, a developer of software used to centralize and simplify image management on physical and virtual desktops, the company said Tuesday.

Citrix boosts VDI offering, talks up cloud-based future at Synergy confab

Citrix Systems is upgrading XenDesktop, acquiring Virtual Computer, introducing a new type of hardware-assisted thin client and initiating a cloud project in an effort to make its virtual desktop infrastructure offering more attractive.

VMware to offer enterprise application portal

VMware will offer enterprise software that allows employees to access all their desktop Windows applications and online services from a single portal, the company announced Wednesday.

How to Virtualize Mission-Critical Applications

Enterprises are virtualizing more and more of their workloads. The benefits are well-known: consolidation and infrastructure efficiency; faster provisioning of applications and better configuration management; universal high-availability services; automated resource optimization, and dynamic scaling of applications.

VMware downplays leaks of source code

Virtualization software vendor VMware today downplayed the seriousness of a source code leak involving the companys ESX hypervisor technology.

How to Avoid the Perils of Virtualization and Cloud Stall

Virtualization and cloud computing offer the promise of cost savings, efficiency and flexibility, but organizations must plan their transitions carefully or risk finding themselves stuck with a bundle of sunk costs and no path forward.

Microsoft boosts virtualization capabilities in Desktop Optimization Pack

Microsoft is boosting the virtualization components of its Desktop Optimization Pack suite of IT management tools.

Cisco, EMC, VMware unite behind big data, cloud training initiative

As the IT silos come down, tech pros need to beef up their skills to stay relevant and maximize the business benefits of cloud computing, virtualization, unified networking and big data, according to Cisco and EMC, which have teamed to offer training targeted at tech's hottest data center disciplines.

Dell to buy thin-client company Wyse Technology

Dell has signed an agreement to acquire thin-client hardware and software company Wyse Technology, to expand its desktop virtualization offerings, Dell said Monday.

Cisco offers virtualized video surveillance

Cisco today announced a virtualized version of its Video Surveillance software for use on its Unified Computing System platform for enterprise- or government-operated video-camera deployments.

Texas sets Vblock as 'preferred' tech

The state of Texas has entered into new data center contracts, worth more than $1 billion, to run its massive consolidation project.

VMware eases cloud provisioning

VMware has made its vCloud Integration Manager available, which it says lets service providers more efficiently provision cloud networks for clients.

tuCloud criticizes Microsoft, OnLive for virtual desktop licensing debacle

Less than a week after Microsoft put its foot down on OnLive's virtual desktop solution for allegedly violating its licensing standards, tuCloud capitalized by releasing its own product, taking a few jabs at both OnLive and Microsoft in the process.

Piston Cloud has made the tough private cloud decisions for you

Joshua McKenty, co-founder and chief executive officer of Piston Cloud, was in on the ground floor of OpenStack's creation, working as he was on the Anso Labs team at NASA to build a compute cloud on top of open source platform Eucalyptus. Insider (registration required

New Cisco servers have Intel Xeon E5 inside

Cisco this week expanded its data center portfolio with servers and networking gear to better support virtualization, cloud computing and Big Data.

Motorola to offer phones with VMware hypervisor, too

Motorola Mobility has joined LG and Samsung among the companies building VMware's hypervisor into their phones. The move is part of a larger push at Motorola to cater to business users.

Application Streaming Gets a New Face With Cloudpaging

Application streaming--delivering software on-demand from centralized servers or the cloud--holds great promise, but has proved elusive in practical application. Legacy applications can prove difficult to virtualize and performance has been problematic. But Numecent, a startup born of a DARPA project, aims to change that.

Dell claims it has network virtualization architecture too

Dell this week is throwing its hat into the virtual networking ring with an architecture that initially is long on vision but short on specifics.

NaviSite wants to host your virtual desktops

Seeking to capture a slice of market share in the emerging field of virtual desktop services, NaviSite, a Time Warner Cable managed service provider of cloud-based products has announced its next major endeavor: a desktop as a service (DaaS) offering aimed specifically at enterprise customers.

MWC: New software virtualizes multiple Android instances on smartphone

A new virtualization technique lets users create two separate Android "spaces" on their smartphone or tablet, one for personal use and a kind of walled garden for work use. The beta software, from Cellrox, is being demonstrated this week at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Spain.