Open source is being subsumed into the clouds. Virtualization is paving the way and Red Hat thinks they can put up a fight against VMware.

VMware on Tuesday launched an open source client for virtual desktops in a move that mixes a little bit of offense and defense.In a statement, the company said its VMware View Open Client would ...

Virtualization specialists XenSource and Virtual Iron, both rooted in Linux and open source, plan to use the show to announce support for Microsoft systems.

The increased use of software virtualization in embedded systems is enabling additional use of open-source operating systems (OSes) and applications. The notion of providing a virtualized interface to ...

KVM is an open-source virtualization technology that offers a cost-effective and flexible alternative solution for customers using private clouds to host virtual machines.

SWSoft is putting its virtualization software into the open source community with the introduction of the Server Virtualization Open Source Project, or OpenVZ, which is freely available at the ...

The OpenVZ project has announced its open source virtualization software is available for servers using Sun's UltraSPARC T1 CoolThreads processor. The operating system-level server virtualization ...

In 2014, companies and open source programmers alike are working as hard as they can to virtualize hardware into software. The latest example of this is Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The ...

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.

Such is the case with open source virtualization software. While the rest of the world—including businesses, elementary, middle, and high schools—was first beginning to grasp the benefits of open ...

Savings are a big factor in the move to open-source virtualization, but so is the ability to tweak the software to suit specific requirements ...

In my most recent post, I wrote about the impact open source software will have on the proprietary software industry.