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  • Red Hat: The hypervisor will be free

    Linux vendor Red Hat has predicted that virtualisation software will be included in all operating systems for free, while setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on for its own product range.

  • Microsoft attacks potential VMWare feature

    Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley last week criticised virtualisation rival VMWare for an idea that could see virtualised operating system images patched while they were still running in memory.

  • Microsoft offers Hyper-V for free

    Microsoft began a major virtualisation push late yesterday, with the introduction of new virtualisation tools and by making its core hypervisor product free of charge.

  • Red Hat buys virtualisation firm

    Linux vendor Red Hat has bought its way further into the virtualisation market, to compete against VMware, Citrix and Microsoft, with a US$107 million purchase of Qumranet.

  • Symantec wants another chance

    Computer security firm Symantec this week claimed 300 changes in the new versions of Norton Internet Security and Antivirus would address past performance problems.

  • Price rise for VMware too

    Virtualisation vendor VMware has confirmed that, like fellow US-based software giant Citrix, it is currently raising its prices in countries outside the United States due to the declining value of the US dollar.

  • VMware apologises for licensing bug

    VMware's chief executive has apologised for the disruption caused by a licensing issue which resulted in the company's latest hypervisors, ESX 3.5 Update 2 and ESXi 3.5 Update 2, not powering on after being turned off.

  • VMware Australia plays down bug

    VMware's Australia and New Zealand division today said the local impact was small from a botched software patch that had left some customers unable to start their virtualised environments.

  • VMware bug causes worldwide chaos

    A flaw in the VMware licensing code is responsible for problems with the software that are affecting users worldwide.

  • Ex-Microsoft executive becomes VMware CEO

    VMware on Tuesday announced the abrupt departure of founder and CEO Diane Greene, replacing her with former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz.

  • Virtualisation: The key to a green datacentre?

    Virtualisation is the key technology for creating less power-hungry datacentres, according to numerous speakers at the Energy Logic symposium in Sydney.

  • Virtualisation to drive staff-owned PCs at work

    Virtualisation's ability to separate the operating system from hardware will give companies the choice to let staff run their own devices at work, according to analysts but security remains problematic today.

  • Microsoft finally goes to market with Hyper-V

    Microsoft has announced that its Hyper-V hypervisor is finally available, but analysts have questioned whether large enterprises will adopt the product as their sole virtualisation technology.

  • Red Hat dolls up Linux with embedded hypervisor

    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.

  • Tassie goes virtually green with $1.2m VMWare deal

    The Tasmanian government has settled on VMWare Infrastructure 3 as its official virtualisation suite, committing to a three-year, AU$1.2 million contract in the hopes of going green and keeping cash in its pockets.

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