In this edition of five open source things to watch, we take a look at virtualization software that can consolidate infrastructure without shrinking the savings.

The OpenVZ project has upped the ante in the virtualization stakes by introducing virtual environment software for Power-based server environments.

VMware offers a very comprehensive selection of virtualization products, with Fusion for the Apple Mac and Workstation for the PC. Despite the name difference, these two products offer effectively the ...

The Zen on Xen Xen hypervisor is an open source virtualization engine developed by the founders of XenSource, which produces commercial virtualization software built off the Xen platform.

Commercial version of Sun's open source server-virtualization software will be made available next month.

XenSource released on Monday the third version of its open-source virtualization software, which beefs up the product with features aimed at corporate customers. Xen, a "hypervisor," is a thin ...

AMD releases open-source GIM driver aimed at Linux-based hardware virtualization. The new driver is one of AMD's first open-source drivers in a new push to make more of its software stack open-source.

VMware on Tuesday announced VMware View Open Client and claimed that it advances its vClient Initiative toward universal clients. The new software, available under the GNU Lesser GPL 2.1, enables ...

Zabbix is a powerful and flexible open-source monitoring software solution designed to monitor IT infrastructure's performance, health, and availability, including servers, networks, applications, and ...

HP, Novell and AMD formally announce support for Xen open source virtualization.

The Open Metaverse Foundation brings together thought-leading organizations and open source communities to work on developing open source software and standards for a global, vendor-neutral and ...

Virtual Iron Software is taking a page from rival VMware's marketing book and making deals to bundle its virtualization software with servers from tier-one server vendors.