Virtualization

Calls For EMC-VMware Breakup Get Louder

IBM has sold off its System x division to Lenovo, eBay is spinning off PayPal, and Hewlett-Packard is breaking itself into two. Suddenly the idea of conglomerates that have ...Full Article

Platform9 Emerges From Stealth To Unify Virtualization Management

The cloud ecosystem continues to expand as a group of ex-VMware engineers have emerged from stealth mode to launch a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform aimed at managing private clouds. ...Full Article

Red Hat Ties KVM Virtualization To RHEL 7

Days after releasing the latest version of its flagship open source operating system, Red Hat announced the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization suite, its commercial implementation of ...Full Article

Docker Software Containers Go Commercial

The next wave of virtualization, and one that has the potential to displace hypervisor-based virtualization on Linux platforms, is upon us now that Docker, the software container and application ...Full Article

Intel Software To Guarantee Virtual Machine Performance

Virtual machines do not always behave themselves and Intel wants to change that through a combination of circuitry in its processors and software that it develops in-house and plugs ...Full Article

VMware Props SAP HANA Up On Hypervisors

VMware and SAP announced the release this week of the German software vendor's in-memory computing platform, HANA, running on top of VMware's vSphere 5.5 server virtualization software. The agreement ...Full Article

AWS Adopts Docker Containers For Elastic Beanstalk

The Docker application container technology that is emerging as a new method of packing and running applications on top of Linux servers has gotten another important blessing as it ...Full Article

Cloud Migration Boosts VMware

VMware reported healthy revenue and earnings during the first quarter of 2014 as cloud adoption gains steam. The virtualization and cloud infrastructure specialist said its Q1 revenues totaled $1.36 ...Full Article

Red Hat Targets Apps With Project Atomic And RHEL 7

"The app is king," declared Red Hat's president of products and technologies at the company's annual summit today. Indeed, the focus on applications and how they are ported among ...Full Article