VMware executives spent much of their time at VMworld explaining the workings and benefits of virtual appliances and virtual desktop PCs. VMware this week said it is launching a program to market and ...

Vendors created the appliance market by delivering their software applications pre-installed on standalone servers. The goal was to simplify installation for the users and to make support easier ...

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In our last newsletter we discussed some of the benefits of virtual appliances. In this newsletter we will discuss some of the potential challenges that are associated with virtual appliances. One of ...

StorMagic's new SvSAN allows the deployment of a high-availability, shared storage solution in VMware ESX virtual server infrastructures, said Mike Stolz, vice president of marketing for the Eden ...

Virtual appliances allow the vendor to pre-build the underlying OS and the UC Application, along with a definition of the virtual hardware resource requirements. A "virtual" appliance?!? What on earth ...

The combination of free open source and virtual machines is hard to beat; here are some of the handiest virtual appliances Virtual appliances are great for the same reasons physical appliances took ...

When most people talk about the adoption of virtualization, they are really talking about the adoption of server virtualization. While there is no doubt that server virtualization is the most common ...

Managing IT infrastructure is a more complex proposition than it used to be. The age of on-premises servers and monolithic applications is giving way to a new hybrid reality: Legacy, on-premises ...