Virtualization news from FierceCIO

Storage startup Nasuni has unveiled a NAS file server that runs on VMware as a virtual machine. The VM essentially facilitates the connection of local clients to cloud platforms such as Amazon or... Read more...

Research is underway to determine the possibility of leveraging virtualization in supercomputers. Funded by U.S. Energy Department's Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S. National Science... Read more...

Data center managers are looking for a better year in 2010--one that brings more money and technologies that help them improve their bottom line. "They're hoping to see budgets again in 2010," Roger... Read more...

Small and medium businesses that implement virtualization are more competent than those who don't. So says VMware, who conducted a blind survey on 309 SMBs where the majority of them are based in the... Read more...

IBM announced new security software for virtual servers. Built on VMware's vSphere platform for data virtualization, IBM's Virtual Server Security product secures the hypervisor, operating system,... Read more...

There's a new way to make money, and it's called "virtual goods." It is estimated that the concept could bring in a billion dollars for products that don't exist. "It's a fantastic business," Jeremy... Read more...

IT operations "are going to have to start to plan for the impact of increased equipment failure rates," says Peter Sondergaard, Gartner's global head of research in a Computerworld article. He made... Read more...

On Thursday, Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of the Windows 7 XP Mode. XP Mode was intended to ease the transition to Windows 7 by using virtualization to provide a Windows XP... 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...

Red Hat launched the Deltacloud project late last week, which is aimed at creating an application programming interface (API) to unify the disparate cloud platforms out there. The objective,... Read more...