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 ...

As software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV) and other new-age networking initiatives mature, we'll be taking a look at what's in store for some of the most promising ...

The Xen Project, which develops an open source hypervisor hosted by the Linux Foundation, announced the release of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.13. The project site says it "is focused on advancing ...

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 ...

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. So does that make open-source virtualization twice as ...

Seven need-to-know points when looking at open source virtualization technology. Virtualization is a hot data center technology that is capturing the attention of IT for its consolidation and cost ...

Open-source hypervisors including Red Hat Inc.'s KVM and Xen -- used by both Citrix and Oracle Corp. -- and the management tools running on top of them are gaining strength in both adoption rates and ...

At the Boston show, HP Linux Vice President Martin Fink said HP Labs plans to open source some of its virtual machine management technology to the Xen open source project under the General Public ...

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 ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor With virtualization now a mainstream technology for most large businesses, the big players like EMC (VMWare), IBM and Microsoft are investing heavily in proprietary options for ...