VMware, one of the hotter software companies around, is taking its shot at the Wall Street spotlight. After three years as a unit of data storage leader EMC, VMware filed for its initial public offering late last month. It aims to raise up to $100 million. EMC will retain a majority stake.... Read More...

Transitive® Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system (OS) pairs, today announced QuickTransit® for Solaris™/SPARC®-to-Solaris™/x86, the latest addition to... Read More...

Three-quarters of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said virtualization--the simultaneous running of several operating systems on a single desktop or server--is one of their current investment priorities. Peter Pedersen, CTO at Rank Group, said: "Virtualization is very much a priori... Read More...

A new remote desktop hosting service has kicked off its beta test this week, illustrating not only how flexible virtualisation can be, but also how rapidly online applications are increasing in maturity and popularity. Called Nivio, the service enables a Windows XP desktop along with a range of ... Read More...

XenSource, Inc., the leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen ™ hypervisor, today announced that KBC Clearing, a financial services firm providing cost-efficient clearing, execution and prime brokerage services, has... Read More...

Ed Welsh bought a MacBook Pro to use as a Windows machine in Boot Camp. After discovering Mac OS X, he moved his Boot Camp-installed copy of Windows into a virtual machine in VMware Fusion. He was then able to delete the Boot Camp drive partition:... Read More...

ZDNet Blogger Dan Kusnetzky speaks with Rackspace CTO, John Engates, to get a technology consumer's view of the state of virtualization technology today. The company is managing roughly 30,000 servers hosted in 7 data centers around the world. John pointed... Read More...