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

News about management standards doesn’t often excite industry watchers, but the recent debut of the Distributed Management Task Force’s (DMTF) Open Virtualization Format standard could change all that ...

Several big IT vendors, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, BMC Software, Intel and Red Hat, announced this week that they are banding together to promote an open-source virtualization platform — ...

A VMware vApp is a collection of pre-configured virtual machines (VMs) that combine applications with the operating systems that they require. VMware vApps operate on the Open Virtualization Format ...

Microsoft said Tuesday that it would open up its virtualization format technology, adding the Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) specification to the Open Specification Promise, first introduced in ...