News (7)

Vmware offers performance testing tool

Vmware has launched a new tool to test the performance of virtualised systems, which in the past has been difficult to pin down despite the benefits of virtualisation. Read more »

Microsoft Hyper-V 'virtually there' but not

The long wait is almost over for Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualisation software for Windows Server 2008 -- it has reached the feature-complete release-candidate stage placing it in limbo between beta-stage development and a final release. Read more »

Standard coming to virtualisation format

Major virtualisation companies are co-operating to bring some simplicity to the world of their mutual interest, the format used to save virtual machine images to disk. Read more »

VMware shares secrets in security drive

Virtualisation vendor VMware has quietly begun sharing some of its software secrets with the IT security industry under an unannounced plan to create better ways of securing virtual machines. Read more »

Microsoft: Use virtualisation to try software

Microsoft "test drive" program lets customers try out software in unobtrusive virtual machines. Read more »

Major vendors in virtualisation moves

Microsoft, Citrix, Novell and Sun Microsystems all made announcements around virtualisation overnight. Read more »

Virtualisation: Is it all about the hardware, or the OS?

The virtualisation specialists are fighting back. Companies like VMware, and more recently XenSource, got their start with standalone virtualisation software -- but Linux sellers and Microsoft, unwilling to cede their influential position selling the foundational software of a computer, are trying to make virtualisation a feature of the operating system. Read more »

Features (2)

Remaking my server environment: blade servers, virtualisation, terminal computing

My staff and I will be making some relatively significant changes to the computing environment at Westminster College. I thought I'd use this post to describe what we're doing and why and maybe give you some ideas about your own workings. Read more »

Almost as good as being there

Virtual machines gained popularity as a way to emulate Windows on Mac OS or Linux. ZDNet Australia looks at the two most popular packages. Read more »

Log in


Sign up | Forgot your password?

What's on?