U.S. antitrust authorities have approved Citrix Systems Inc.'s purchase of privately held XenSource Inc, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday. Antitrust officials have completed their review of the deal without taking action to block it, the FTC... Read More...

InovaWave this week introduced software the startup says will give any VMware ESX server environment a performance boost by optimizing resource use and arranging virtual transactions based on preset goals. InovaWave, founded in March 2006 and based in Austin, Texas, develops software designed to... Read More...

The rise of virtualization is creating confusion among users about software licenses, and prompting vendors to craft new strategies to address concerns. In the virtualized data center, virtual applications or operating systems can be running multiple times on a single multi-processor box or on one... Read More...

Among the more intriguing products that will be demonstrated at VMworld is InovaWave’s VirtualOctane, the new VMware ESX version of its DXtreme, which was only available for Microsoft platforms (e.g., VMware Virtual Server and Microsoft Virtual Server). Announced this week, VirtualOctane uses an ada... Read More...

SunGard Availability Services today announced it is now offering support of VMware(R) ESX Server 3.x and the distributed services that are part of VMware Infrastructure through its Operating System (OS) Management Service. With this enhancement, SunGard now provides full management of customers' sys... Read More...