Last week’s LinuxWorld Conference in Boston was the locus of several important announcements. Again, virtualization was front and center. In no particular order: * XenSource announced XenEnterprise.

Shrugging off challenges from rival upstarts touting better technology, virtualization leader VMware Friday released a free beta version of its software for creating multiple operating systems on a ...

Cloud computing and virtualization software company VMware has announced that its flagship desktop software is now free for personal use. Individual users can now download and use VMWare Fusion Pro ...

VMware has announced that its Fusion Pro and Workstation Pro virtualization software is now free for personal use. For those unfamiliar with Fusion, it is designed to allow Mac users to operate ...

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 ...

Virtualization administrators will be happy to know that StarWind is now offering two free software tools that could prove quite useful in the virtual datacenter. The first tool is for virtual hard ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

Citrix XenDesktop puts the core desktop PC components, including the operating system, the application, and the settings, into a desktop image that can be run off a server, said Calvin Hsu, principal ...

If there's one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it's virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...