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Microsoft gears up for victory in the virtual battle
Insight newsmaker Redmond's senior director for virtualization product management Zane Adam says the company will use its tried and tested methods to grab a bigger share of the virtualization market.
Tags: Virtualization, Strategy, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Market, Virtual Machine, VMware Inc., Hypervisor, Server, XenSource Inc.
Cisco, VMware collaborate on desktop virtualization
News A partnership between Cisco and virtualization company VMware has led to the development of a virtual network switch for VMware clusters.
Tags: Routing/switching, Virtualization, Data centers, Cisco Systems Inc., Quocirca, VMware Inc., software, network, blade server, brand
Red Hat buys virtualization player Qumranet
News With the US$107 million purchase, Red Hat gains hypervisor and desktop virtualization tools to challenge VMware and Microsoft.
Tags: Operating systems, Virtualization, Acquisitions, Open source, Red Hat Inc., Hypervisor, software, processor, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux
Centralize desktop control with VDI
Techguide Find out some of the reasons for considering virtual desktop infrastructure, and the ways by which a VDI implementation takes form.
Tags: Operating systems, Servers, Virtualization, Virtual Desktop, Solution, Virtual Machine, Storage, operating system, application virtualization, VDI
Seven benefits of virtual desktop infrastructure
Techguide With the ever increasing prices of upgrading desktop computers, virtualization of the desktop is becoming very appealing.
Tags: Virtualization, Servers, Storage, Apple Inc., Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Virtual Desktop, Microsoft Windows Vista, Steven S. Warren, Altiris Inc., Thin Client
Fujitsu to plug in Citrix virtualization
News Citrix's Xen technology will be combined with Fujitsu's servers and workplace virtualization portfolio to provide an integrated bundle for setting up VDIs.
Tags: Virtualization, Desktops, Server platforms, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Consumer Technology, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Desktop, VMware Inc., Server
Sun plugs open standard into VirtualBox upgrade
News New features in version 2.2 of the virtualisation software include support for the Open Virtualization Format standard, support for Mac OS X 10.6 and performance improvements.
Tags: Virtualization, Innotek VirtualBox, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Apple Mac OS X, VMware Inc., operating system, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, performance
Parallels plugs USB links into virtual desktops
News The virtualization company is partnering with Silex to incorporate USBs into customers' virtual networks.
Tags: Components, Virtualization, Desktops, Virtual Desktop, Scanner, Virtual Environment, USB, Parallels Virtuozzo, operating system, Environment
Reduce energy costs and environmental impact
Techguide With green IT, it doesn’t take a whole lot of effort to make an impact in your organization. Here are four ways to get started and see the impact on ROI.
Tags: Green IT
YouTube tour reveals Google data center designs
News Want to peek inside Google's formerly uber-secret data centers? The company has published a tour of its facilities on YouTube.
Tags: Data centers, Conference, Google Inc., financial incentive, Environment, Server, YouTube Inc., financial, data center, Belgium
VirtualBox provides security that's easy to setup, maintain for free
Techguide Using Sun Microsystems’ VirtualBox, Linux security tools and threat testing can be executed on a Windows platform.
