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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Xen, an open-source project with growing ties to Red Hat, Novell and Hewlett-Packard, is emerging as the leading contender for providing open-source virtualization for the Linux environment. Ian Pratt ...

Intel-based Mac OS X users now have yet another virtualization solution to choose from now that Innotek has announced a Mac version of its VirtualBox virtualization software. This time though, the ...

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 ...

The people who brought you Open vSwitch (OVS) are taking a shot at putting network abstractions on top of those virtual switches. The result would be the ability to connect groups of virtual machines ...

Actiphy Inc. announces a new ActiveImage Protector version with backup and recovery support for the open-source Proxmox ...

A twisty, years-long brouhaha centered around open-source licensing has taken another turn, with an Amazon Web Services (AWS) project based on Elasticsearch being turned over to a new group under the ...

A new AI/data platform stemming from open source champion Linux Foundation has been launched, yet another effort to "democratize" AI tech. The Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) is the latest ...

When leaders say open source is “free,” what they really mean is that the software has no license cost. Everything else (hardware, integration, staffing and support) still carries a bill. Many IT ...