They're turning to open-source software as part of their virtualization mix. Sure, savings are a big factor, but so is the ability to tweak the software to suit specific requirements.

The increased use of software virtualization in embedded systems is enabling additional use of open-source operating systems (OSes) and applications. The notion of providing a virtualized interface to ...

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.

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.

Open source is being subsumed into the clouds. Virtualization is paving the way and Red Hat thinks they can put up a fight against VMware.

Virtualization specialists XenSource and Virtual Iron, both rooted in Linux and open source, plan to use the show to announce support for Microsoft systems.

Such is the case with open source virtualization software. While the rest of the world—including businesses, elementary, middle, and high schools—was first beginning to grasp the benefits of open ...

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 ...

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 ...

Savings are a big factor in the move to open-source virtualization, but so is the ability to tweak the software to suit specific requirements ...

Software makers such as Parallels have been making Mac OS X virtualization software for some time, but Sun is the first to release an open source virtualization product for the platform.

In 2014, companies and open source programmers alike are working as hard as they can to virtualize hardware into software. The latest example of this is Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The ...