SWSoft is putting its virtualization software into the open source community with the introduction of the Server Virtualization Open Source Project, or OpenVZ, which is freely available at the ...

“Open source is less than 5 percent of the overall server-virtualization revenue market share, but could nearly double by 2012,” says Alan Dayley, a Gartner Group research director.

With virtualization now a mainstream technology for most large businesses, the big players are investing heavily in proprietary tools. But don't forget these open source options.

Virtualization is unarguably one of the biggest trends of the past few years, and open-source software has been on the IT radar for a while now. So does that make open-source virtualization twice ...

The OpenVZ project has announced its open source virtualization software is available for servers using Sun's UltraSPARC T1 CoolThreads processor. The operating system-level server virtualization ...

The OpenVZ project has upped the ante in the virtualization stakes by introducing virtual environment software for Power-based server environments. Topics Spotlight: Building a Winning Team ...

And, because no linking of GPL libraries is necessary (because they're loaded into their own partitions), the possible copyleft issues of using open-source products are avoided. This software ...

Xen is an open source virtualization product emanating from Cambridge University, with a commercial arm called Xensource. The entrance of an open source product into this market has caused the ...

The friction is caused by cloud vendors using open source software as the foundation of for-pay managed services. That can rile companies that serve as primary open source project maintainers, ...

Short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine, KVM is not as widely deployed as other open source hypervisors, but its stature is growing rapidly. KVM is a full virtualization hypervisor and can run both ...