virtual machines news from FierceCIO

Cisco and Hewlett Packard are working to put together new Ethernet standards designed to ease the glaring weakness in the industry when it comes to handling virtual machines in the datacenter.... Read more...

IBM is offering the capabilities of its Tivoli systems management to small and medium businesses in the form of its Tivoli Live Monitoring Service. The online service can monitor and manage between... Read more...

Intel has unveiled a reference design as part of a new concept involving what it calls "microservers," earlier this week at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). According to Sean Maloney of the Intel... Read more...

VMware announced its entry into the cloud arena proper with its vCloud Express virtualization software at VMworld this week. VMware vCloud Express essentially allows companies or individuals to set... Read more...

In a bid to wrestle a slice of the pie from the likes of Amazon's EC2, hosting company Rackspace has opened up an additional cloud interface in the form of its Cloud Files APIs. This comes on top of... Read more...

A new problem is starting to rear its ugly head in the spanking new post-virtualized data centers: The issue of guaranteeing the performance of running applications. Stacking multiple virtual... Read more...

According to research by the Burton Group, VMware remains the only vendor whose hypervisor offers 100 percent of the features that it deems as necessary in order to handle "enterprise-class,... Read more...

An exploit researcher at Immunity Inc. has crafted what the security community would coin a "guest-to-host" virtual machine exploit. By exploiting several vulnerabilities in VMware's virtualization... Read more...

At Gartner's annual datacenter conference last week, a Boeing computing infrastructure architect delivered a sobering confirmation of what we have already known or at least suspected for some time.... Read more...

AMD and Red Hat have done what has, so far, proved impossible; they have demonstrated a live migration of virtual machines (VM) across different CPU architectures. For those not familiar with the... Read more...