Fortunately, some very smart people are already thinking about how to solve these dicey problems. The good folks at the Distributed Management Task Force recently published a standard called the Open ...

With VMworld 2008 upon us next month, the challenges virtualization presents IT managers is top of mind for many vendors and industry organizations. One group in particular, the Distributed Management ...

News about management standards doesn’t often excite industry watchers, but the recent debut of the Distributed Management Task Force’s (DMTF) Open Virtualization Format standard could change all that ...

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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 ...

VMware on Tuesday announced VMware View Open Client and claimed that it advances its vClient Initiative toward universal clients. The new software, available under the GNU Lesser GPL 2.1, enables IT ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding an advanced, more powerful 128-bit ZFS file system, new virtualization technologies and the Postgres open-source database to its Solaris 10 Unix operating system, as ...