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 ...

I was recently involved in a VMware virtual machine migration project that required I use VMware Converter Standalone. VMware Converter Standalone is a solid and stable migration tool that comes with ...

Whenever I think of standards I'm quickly brought back to Burton Group CEO Jamie Lewis's immortal question: If a committee meets in the woods and designs a standard, but no one is there to implement ...

Virtual appliances have been around for a while, but will it take a standard like DMTF's OVF to make them truly successful? Back in September 2008, the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) ...

It’s all about the vApps baby. There are vApps for security, vApps as a service, and the Open Virtual Machine (OVF) format specification defines a vApp encapsulation. At some point one will be able to ...

CIO.com – Quick: What part of IT data centers operations hasn’t been transformed by virtualization? After all, server virtualization’s value is well-established. Many, many companies have migrated ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will help IT staff to move virtual machines to the AWS cloud with a new plug-in for VMware’s management platform, AWS said on Friday. The Amazon EC2 VM Import Connector is a ...

Open Virtualization Format could solve key problems with virtualization deployments. It's got key vendors behind it. And it's likely to be even more important as the use of cloud computing increases.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will help IT staff to move virtual machines to the AWS cloud with a new plug-in for VMware's management platform, AWS said on Friday. Amazon Web Services (AWS) will help IT ...