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  • VMware dangles next-gen virtualisation goodies

    VMware has some new ideas for tackling an age-old problem for system administrators: how do you keep a computing service available when the server it's running on fails?

  • Virtualisation: Is it all about the hardware, or the OS?

    The virtualisation specialists are fighting back. Companies like VMware, and more recently XenSource, got their start with standalone virtualisation software -- but Linux sellers and Microsoft, unwilling to cede their influential position selling the foundational software of a computer, are trying to make virtualisation a feature of the operating system.

  • Virtualisation adds up to real dollars

    Competition in the virtualisation market is set to heat up after VMware's stock offering on Tuesday in the US showed that virtual machines equal cold hard cash.

  • New XenEnterprise boosts virtual Windows

    XenSource has endowed its flagship virtualisation product with better Windows support, the company announced on Monday, but a new version due in June will bring greater changes.

  • Virtualisation rivals launch dueling products

    XenSource and Virtual Iron, two companies trying to profit from adoption of open-source Xen virtualisation software, announced free new versions of their products on Monday.

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  • Introduction to server virtualisation

    Virtualisation is a method of running multiple independent virtual operating systems on one computer. Here is how to migrate a physical server to a virtual version.

  • Linux in the virtual world

    Companies that offer virtualisation software are changing their business models and tweaking their software.

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