Alex Bakman offers 10 tips on his blog site for helping improve VMware ESX security. He writes: At VMWORLD 2006, I offered these 10 recommendations to improve ESX security in your shop. Use Firewall and Antivirus software for COS. Just as in any other... Read More...

Wal-Mart has detailed its plans to use Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server as a platform to connect its IT systems. Nancy Stewart, chief executive of the global retailer, told Computer Weekly that Wal-Mart's plans to deploy Linux would allow it to move to lower-cost commodity servers "without sacr... Read More...

Linda More reports that businesses are discovering the advantages of virtual technology for storage in this article on vnunet.com: Utility computing, enabled by the virtualisation of IT infrastructure, is being heralded as the future model by which IT... Read More...

Egenera Inc., a global leader in datacenter virtualization architecture, today announced that that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 7,174,390, titled "Address resolution protocol system and method in a virtual network."... Read More...

Storage supplier EMC sold 10% of its VMware virtualisation software business last week, in a move that the company said would release capital for further development of the virtualisation platform. David Goulden, EMC executive vice-president and chief financial officer, said, "The proceeds from t... Read More...

Surgient, the leader in Virtual Lab Management Applications for automating software demo, test and training labs, today announced that BMC Software is using Surgient Virtual Demo Lab Management System (VDMS) as part of their world class direct and partner... Read More...