The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly.
By John Dix | 13 December, 2011 22:28
A Sydney-based IT services provider has built a public Cloud with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualisation hypervisor instead of one of the better-known commercial or open source products making it one of the first of its kind in Australia.
By Rodney Gedda | 14 June, 2011 11:23
It's been said that Oracle is now the industry's most powerful open source vendor, but don't tell that to Red Hat executives, who say Oracle doesn't even qualify as an open source company.
By Jon Brodkin | 25 May, 2010 06:31
A new version of the Linux kernel, 2.6.34, has been released by Linus Torvalds featuring two new file systems and a number of updates to virtualisation and device driver code.
By Rodney Gedda | 18 May, 2010 13:38
The Linux KVM hypervisor is gaining steam in the cloud computing market, with two major vendors using the virtualization software to create cloud platforms to compete against Amazon's popular EC2 service.
By Jon Brodkin | 21 April, 2010 08:56
Open source virtualization app QEMU has reached version 0.11 and brings some 1400 changes from 90 contributors.
By Rodney Gedda | 30 September, 2009 14:06
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