Virtualization continues to surge into the data center, but it's the desktop where the next round of advances is expected. For now, uptake appears to be slow. When 200-some attendees at IDC's Virtualization 2.0 Forum last week were asked who among them were virtualizing the desktop, only two or ... Read More...

Dunes Technologies Monday will unveil an upgrade of its Virtual Service Orchestrator software for curbing the sprawl of virtual machines from VMware and Microsoft. Dunes Founder and CTO Stefan Hochuli Paychère said Dunes Virtual Service Orchestrator (VS-O) version 3.1 is designed to automate bus... Read More...

Zeus Technology, a leading provider of award-winning application traffic management software, today announced that it has entered into a reseller partnership agreement with Virtual Footprint, a leading industry specialist in the field of virtualization.... Read More...

DataCore’s SANmelody virtualisation software running on Virtual Iron illuminates storage utilisation and provides thin provisioning and disaster recovery at the world’s largest commercial vehicle lighting company, Truck-Lite Europe. From its Harlow base,... Read More...

In a move that will expand Microsoft Corp.'s footprint in the Boston area by about 75 percent, the software company plans to sign a lease this week at One Memorial Drive in Cambridge, just around the corner from the new Kendall Square offices of rival Google Inc. Microsoft will be leasing 136,000... Read More...

VMware and Microsoft both said they're working behind the scenes to make it easier for virtualization users to migrate across their differing virtualization environments and run each other's virtualized files. But so far, it's only virtual kumbaya. Neither one is saying how they're going to do i... Read More...