Sun Microsystems has released VirtualBox 2.2, an update to the company's free and open source desktop virtualization solution. The new release includes a number of performance and feature enhancements ...

The success of the DMTF's effort led participating vendors (including VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and Novell) to develop the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard, which recently had its coming out ...

OVF is no fly-by-night effort, rather it is supported by a who's who of virtualization and industry bigwigs including Citrix, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sun, Symantec, and VMware.

With VMworld 2008 upon us next month, the challenges virtualization presents IT managers is top of mind for many vendors and industry organizations.

My fallback plan was to use the VMware Open Virtualization Format, or OVF. The OVF is a platform-independent, efficient, extensible, and open packaging and distribution format for all VMs. It's not ...

“OVF is a game-changer for how services and applications can be used in the data center,” Bumpus says. “It’s predominantly for virtual servers at this point, but it will enable IT managers ...

Open Virtualization Format could solve key problems with virtualization deployments. It's got key vendors behind it. And it's likely to be even more important as the use of cloud computing ...

Sun Microsystems has released VirtualBox 2.2, an update to the company's free and open source desktop virtualization solution. The new release includes a number of performance and feature enhancements ...