After a five-month beta program that saw more than 700,000 downloads, VMware this week said it would offer VMware Server, its virtualization software, for free. Virtualization is a technique for ...

Shrugging off challenges from rival upstarts touting better technology, virtualization leader VMware Inc. today released a free beta version of its software for creating multiple operating systems on ...

As virtualization software continues to evolve, so do the options for network specialists, IT managers, CTOs, and CIOs. In order to help make the best decision for your organization, it’s important to ...

Precipitated by the much-hyped debut of new multi-core chip architectures and an increased focus on energy savings, the concept of server virtualization software has evolved in recent months to become ...

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With the recent initial public offering of VMware Inc. being greeted with a resounding cheer from investors, it’s clear that virtualization is increasingly important to businesses. Corporations are ...

VMware, which has an 86-percent share of the server virtualization market for x86-based hardware, is not resting on its laurels. Instead, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company, which had one of the most ...

Software development is a fascinating industry that has changed over the years as developers have continually adopted newer programming languages, from Fortran to Pascal to C++ and beyond. But ...