Linux specialist Red Hat has announced it is developing an embedded hypervisor product that it claims will complement, rather than compete with, its existing virtualisation strategy.
Hypervisors are just the skirmish before the virtualisation war proper, according to vendors and analysts, with virtualisation management set to pull in the big bucks in years to come.
XenSource and VMware, two major figures in virtualisation security have warned of challenges facing IT managers in implementing secure virtual environments.
Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing under its own weight, as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Virtual computing environments still need real security, and IBM says it has the answer: Phantom.
HP has announced software aimed at helping IT managers to manage physical and virtual servers as if they were the same.
Red Hat has released new beta versions of its enterprise and desktop Linux products, with improvements including better virtualisation and clustering features, to make the operating system a more stable platform for server farms.
Security vendor McAfee has announced an agreement to use VMsafe virtualisation APIs to build VMware-compatible security products.
VMware's new security feature, VMsafe, is a major improvement to security in a virtual environment because it allows visibility of incoming data, say analysts.
Despite being touted as a key reason for adopting Windows Server 2008, virtualisation is not why companies will buy Microsoft's server operating system
Server virtualisation is over-hyped and less used than reported, according to Microsoft executives speaking at the launch of Windows Server 2008.
Microsoft officially launched Windows Server 2008, Windows Visual Studio 2008, and announced SQL Server 2008, which is due in the third quarter of this year.
Insiders broadly welcome Microsoft's virtualisation push but voice some frustration at the fact some products are later than expected.
Heading in a different direction from its main rivals, Ubuntu Linux will use KVM as its primary virtualisation software.
Backing off earlier plans, company says customers will be able to buy the virtualisation technology without committing to Windows Server.
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