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 ...

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. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and ...

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 ...

In this edition of five open source things to watch, we take a look at virtualization software that can consolidate infrastructure without shrinking the savings. KVM Short for Kernel-based Virtual ...

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 Virtualization is unarguably one of the biggest trends of ...

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 ...

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 ...

AMD releases open-source GIM driver aimed at Linux-based hardware virtualization. The new driver is one of AMD's first open-source drivers in a new push to make more of its software stack open-source.

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 ...

The years-long friction between the open source camp and cloud computing platforms still lingers, a recent report reveals. The friction is caused by cloud vendors using open source software as the ...

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