So I am having a bit of an argument with a colleage. He thinks it is perfectly okay for our smallish outfit to use nothing but Linux + Libvirt + KVM to manage "one-off" needs like hosting backup ...

Exclusive Broadcom has lost another sizable customer for its VMware platform: Austrian cloud provider Anexia has moved 12,000 VMs, some of them rented by major European businesses, to an open-source ...

What's the most popular operating system in the world? If you guessed "Windows," you're about a decade behind the curve. The fight is currently between Android and the rest of the Linux family, with ...

Virtualization is a buzzword that's been making its way around the corporate IT circles for a few years. On paper, virtualization sounds great—you can make full use of those unused CPU cycles, ...

Apple has decided not to renew an expiring VMware enterprise licensing agreement and will be stepping up deployment of KVM, an open-source alternative to VMware server virtualization, multiple sources ...

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Feb 10, 2016) - Platform9, the company making private clouds easy, today announced that Platform9 Managed OpenStack now gives enterprise IT the ability to segment and ...

Anyone using VMware on Linux will be able to use KVM as a hypervisor in future. However, there are not yet many details about the change. Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) instead of proprietary ...

Apple is not renewing a contract with server virtualization software provider VMware, reports CRN — a move that could save the company millions of dollars. According to the report, Apple was using ...

I like using the right tool for the right problem, but when it comes to running multiple virtualization hypervisors I don't want to run individual management management programs for each one. I want ...