While there are plenty of server virtualization solutions and tools that support or are based on open source, there has been comparatively little movement on open source storage virtualization.

Storage startup Gluster has become the latest vendor to join a recent wave of emerging companies providing enterprise storage management features to industry standard hardware and commodity-based ...

Nexenta allows solution providers to configure high-capacity, scalable, and low-cost storage infrastructures using open-source software and either virtual appliances or industry-standard hardware.

Most enterprise organizations are approximately at the halfway point when it comes to virtualization and haven’t really plunged wholeheartedly into open source platforms and applications.

Seven need-to-know points when looking at open source virtualization technology. Virtualization is a hot data center technology that is capturing the attention of IT for its consolidation and cost ...

Red Hat presents the notion that a stack of open source software can address organizations' IT requirements nearly as well or as well as can proprietary software.

Software-defined storage will come into its own in 2015, and open-source software will carry it there.

Symantec announced it has combined its online storage management software with Citrix Systems Inc.'s Xen Hypervisor to develop an x86 server virtualization platform. The company also made several ...

Open source, software-defined storage and a hybrid on-premises/cloud model have all converged in a new commercial offering announced by Nexenta.

Open Source Storage has a bit of a struggle on its hands. Despite having existed (kind of) for well over 10 years, the storage company is relatively unknown compared to incumbent players (NetApp ...

“Sun is the only vendor open sourcing storage software, with a choice of operating systems, middleware, and devices on extremely scalable, modular hardware to meet industry needs.

With virtualization now a mainstream technology for most large businesses, the big players are investing heavily in proprietary tools. But don't forget these open source options.