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Citrix Has Free Kit for Migrating From VMware Horizon to Xen

Citrix introduced a free kit and cloud service for developers who want to migrate from VMware Horizon View to Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. Citrix...

VMware Unveils Automation Tools for Building New-Gen Data Centers

SAN FRANCISCO—In its quest to stay a step ahead of competitors as a go-to vendor for data center management software, VMware on Aug. 31...

HP Partners With VMware on New Converged Infrastructure

Hewlett-Packard earlier this month unveiled a hyperconverged infrastructure appliance for its software-defined storage portfolio that offers enhanced integration with virtualization technology from VMware.Weeks later,...

VMware Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Containers With Photon

SAN FRANCISCO—The well-worn quote from "The Godfather" plays well here at VMworld 2015: "Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer."VMware, bound and...

CoreOS Adds Intel Clear Container Technology in Rocket Containers

CoreOS is moving forward with its development of the Rocket (rkt) container technology, thanks to some help from Intel. The latest rkt 0.8 release...

Docker Working on Security Components, Live Container Migration

SEATTLE—Containers are one of the hottest topics in IT today and at the Linuxcon USA event here there is a co-located event called Containercon,...

Open Container Project Gets New Name, Sees Member Growth

A month ago today, Docker Inc. joined with its container rivals in a new Linux Foundation effort, known as the Open Container Project. The...

SIOS Technology Unveils Analytics for Virtualized Systems

High-availability clustering provider SIOS Technology, formerly known in the U.S. as Steeleye, has unveiled new machine-learning analytics software that enables IT managers to optimize...

Tech Deal: Delphix Picks Up $75M for DaaS Development

Delphix, the database virtualizer which has pivoted to becoming an early entrant into the nascent DaaS market (data-as-a-service, not be confused with desktop-as-a-service), has...

Correcting Persistent Myths About Virtual Volumes

Correcting Persistent Myths About Virtual Volumes by Chris Preimesberger You Only Need One VVOL for Every Virtual Machine You need one VVOL for Config, one for Swap...