Four months ago, almost nobody had heard of an open-source virtualization software called KVM. But that was then. The project, backed by a stealth-mode start-up called Qumranet, uses a technical and ...

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 ...

IT organizations are under constant pressure to reduce costs without reducing capabilities. Hypervisors are not immune to that pressure. Those costs have become an enormous issue for every IT ...

Xen and KVM, like other virtualization tools, can be used as part of a comprehensive datacenter architecture. One of the most important value propositions offered by both of these tools is low initial ...

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 ...

Clabby Analytics has just released its latest research paper entitled "VMware vs. KVM: A Functionality/Price Discussion." The report dives into functionality and cost comparisons as they pertain to ...

Hyper-convergence startup Nutanix, which unveiled technology last summer that converts VMware-based workloads to its own KVM-based Acropolis hypervisor format, made it available to customers for the ...

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IT organizations are under constant pressure to reduce costs without reducing capabilities. Hypervisors are not immune to that pressure. Those costs have become an enormous issue for every IT ...