Nonetheless, Microsoft on Monday changed its mind again, saying it will allow users to run Vista Home Basic and Vista Home Premium as guest operating systems on a virtual machine. The news is especially welcome for Mac users who want to run the latest Windows version without having to pay an arm and... Read More...

Microsoft has acquired a start-up company called Calista Technologies and expanded its alliance with Citrix Systems, targeting VMware's early lead in virtualization technology. Microsoft unveiled the news on Monday as part of a broader call to arms against VMware that includes adopting virtualiz... Read More...

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BCSI), the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway, today announced that Surgient, the leader in Virtual Lab Management Applications for software testing, training and evaluation, has deployed Blue Coat® ProxySG® appliances for accelerating web and c... Read More...

Phoenix Technologies Ltd. , the global leader in core systems firmware, announced today that Rich Arnold, the Company's COO and CFO, will be presenting to the investment community on January 31, 2008, at the Southwest Securities Small Cap Growth Conference in Dallas, TX, and on February 19, 2008, at... Read More...

VMware, Inc., the virtualization software leader, today announced the public beta of VMware Stage Manager, a new first-in-class management and automation product that streamlines and accelerates the process of bringing new or modified applications and other IT services into production. Building on t... Read More...

VMWare has a bug that doesn’t allow network interface device names to be more than 8 characters long. Yes, this is not a typo: If your interface name is more than 8 characters long, you’re out of luck. The origin of the bug for me is unknown. Naturally, I’ve had to research this issue as it becam... Read More...