The System Virtualization Health Check proactively evaluates your virtualization infrastructure to help you optimize the configuration for performance, manageability, and cost savings. The Microsoft System Virtualization Health Check provides insights into your virtualization infrastructure plann... Read More...

Fortisphere, a provider of enterprise virtual machine lifecycle management software, today named security industry expert Jim Melvin and veteran software investment banker Richard Vieira to its board of directors. Melvin and Vieira bring more than 30 years of combined IT systems and startup experien... Read More...

Logicworks, a leading provider of high-availability hosting solutions to support business-critical applications and content, today announced it has joined the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP). Achieving greater levels of flexibility, scalability, and consolidation by leveraging VMware Infrastr... Read More...

Tideway Systems, one of the fastest growing providers of IT automation software, today announced the availability of Tideway Foundation™ as a virtual appliance. A first for the industry, the Tideway virtual appliance accelerates the deployment of Foundation 7.0, Tideway’s award winning application ... Read More...

With nearly 80 companies offering somewhere around 120 virtualization management products listed by Gartner, it might be the perfect time for the DMTF to set some standards for system virtualization management. It looks like newcomer ManageIQ is signing up to the task. ManageIQ™, the emerging le... Read More...

We have high hopes for FastScale’s combination of products as it cuts away needless junk from virtual instances, making operating system and application instances lean and unencumbered by unused code. FastScale’s product can shoehorn many more atomic scaled-down virtual machines onto a VMware host l... Read More...

Citrix's Barry Flanagan writes about the Xen product and roadmap based on what was said during the Xen Summit. Digging into some of the interesting presentations, Barry writes: The first one I will discuss is the Project Update by Ian Pratt. The first presentation of the Xen Summit was by Ian... Read More...