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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sun on Wednesday updated its VirtualBox virtualisation software to version 2.2, adding features such as support for the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard. It also added support for Windows 7 ...

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A longtime supporter of Linux and open source technologies, IBM has also become a leading proponent of Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and is a founding member of the recently-formed Open ...

Microsoft is expected to announce on Tuesday that it is making its virtualization file format available for free and without a license. At an interoperability conference in Brussels, the software ...