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At this year’s VMworld Europe keynote address, VMware CTO Stephen Herrod says that one day, thousands of virtual machines will be manageable through one management console. Herrod hopes that day won’t be too far off, what with virtual machines these days being tapped with four virtual CPUs, up to 64 GB of RAM, and 9 [...]

Motley Fool columnist Matt Koppenheffer has named VMware one of his picks for top growth stocks.  “They’re exciting, they have good stories, and they can make you a lot of money,” he writes regarding his affinity for growth stocks. However, he adds, “growth stocks are also the prima donnas of the market. They can be [...]

In a classic “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” move, natural enemies Red Hat and Microsoft are calling a truce long enough to reluctantly concede that yes, virtualization is here to stay, and yes, companies want to be able to run lots of different types operating systems all at the same time, and [...]

Virtualization.info has been around for a while, since 2003. This site prides itself on its editorial selectiveness regarding which news about virtualization gets posted. Editorial vision including a news digest and big picture additions to existing stories in order to provide background and context for those who are following the industry. Virtualization.info’s Virtualization Industry Radar [...]

Linux Magazine has selected VMWare as one of its top companies to watch in 2009, according to a recent press release.  Linux Magazine’s list highlights firms  “that are well positioned to spur Linux and open-source adoption in the coming year while delivering on the immediate needs of the marketplace,” says the release. VMWare continues to [...]

According to Symantec’s 2008 “State of the Data Center” report, data center managers must try to satisfy two opposite but equal forces: user requirements that seems to get more demanding every year, and budget requirements that really are constraining spending more than ever. In an article at AMEInfo.com, Rob Soderbery, senior vice president of Symantec’s [...]

Seems like most of the time when I think “environmentally friendly”, I also think “more expensive.” Take, for example, the notion of organic foods. Organic is supposed to be better for the earth because only natural measures go into the final products.  No hormones for the cows, no pesticide for the fruits and vegetables, no [...]

Virtualization is not a completely new technique, and it’s easy to see what you need and don’t need if you just break it down, says IT analyst Dan Kusnetsky. He writes about what he calls the “layers of virtualization.” Access virtualization, for example, makes it possible for employees in different locations using an array of [...]

Server virtualization has been gaining in popularity over the last decade because it helps IT managers save big money on hardware. Virtualization tools like VMWare, Xen, or Microsoft Virtual Server can also be very inexpensive or even free to download and install. The last frontier of virtualization has been with high throughput applications like SQL [...]