VMware executives spent much of their time at VMworld explaining the workings and benefits of virtual appliances and virtual desktop PCs. VMware this week said it is launching a program to market and ...

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Hypervisors like VirtualBox or VMware can run just about any OS as long as you've got enough hardware power. However, just ...

Vendors created the appliance market by delivering their software applications pre-installed on standalone servers. The goal was to simplify installation for the users and to make support easier ...

In our last newsletter we discussed some of the benefits of virtual appliances. In this newsletter we will discuss some of the potential challenges that are associated with virtual appliances. One of ...

Virtualisation software supplier VMware announced the launch of the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge — a contest with $200,000 (£115,000) worth of prizes at stake — on Monday. According to the ...

Virtualization is rapidly transforming the information landscape and changing the way that people compute. Today’s powerful x86 computer hardware was originally designed to run only a single operating ...

StorMagic's new SvSAN allows the deployment of a high-availability, shared storage solution in VMware ESX virtual server infrastructures, said Mike Stolz, vice president of marketing for the Eden ...

Network and systems management tools typically come as software applications or hardware devices. But a new trend toward virtual appliances combines the ease of hardware installation with the ...

Everyone is familiar with hardware appliances in one form or another. It could be a wireless access point at home or a DNS server appliance in the data center. Appliances offer a prebuilt software ...