It was a big day for Xen and a big day for the other open source virtualizatio hypervisor as well. Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization platform -- including a standalone hypervisor, virtualization ...

Red Hat embraced the virtualization market some time ago, starting with the open source Xen technology as part of the company’s Enterprise Linux operating system. After focusing a lot of attention on ...

The acquisition provides Red Hat with an entry into the nascent desktop virtualization software market, but raises questions about Red Hat's future use of the Xen server virtualization technology that ...

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Red Hat’s server virtualization solution derives from the company’s 2008 acquisition of Qumranet, a small company that had been building a desktop virtualization solution based on KVM (Kernel-based ...

A term that I've been hearing more frequently in the past few months is "desktop virtualization." What does that mean anyway? It seems to me that this could be the use of any one of several different ...

There is so much competition for what computer companies perceive as a tremendous growth opportunity in desktop virtualization that the leading virtual desktop vendors have taken to re-announcing ...

Virtualization watchers have speculated for years when Microsoft would throw a low-cost blow at arch-rival VMware in the desktop virtualization fight. This week, Microsoft delivered the punch via a ...