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 ...

Fortunately, some very smart people are already thinking about how to solve these dicey problems. The good folks at the Distributed Management Task Force recently published a standard called the Open ...

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 ...

I was recently involved in a VMware virtual machine migration project that required I use VMware Converter Standalone. VMware Converter Standalone is a solid and stable migration tool that comes with ...

Sun on Wednesday updated its VirtualBox virtualisation software to version 2.2, adding features such as support for the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard. It also added support for Windows 7 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Sun Microsystems is putting support for the new Open ...

While at ManageFusion, I had an opportunity to speak with Valerie Kane, VP of Marketing for the Distributed Management Task Force, better known as DMTF. Although our discussion wandered down the ...

An IDC study released Thursday depicted a slowing worldwidemarket for virtualized servers. However, Microsoft and interoperabilitymay heat things up again in 2009. Microsoft Hyper-V, in its first ...

In an effort to spur cloud adoption, Microsoft is making an unusual move: participating in an open-source project. On Friday, Cloud.com said that it is working with Microsoft to make the open-source ...

Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2. In addition to providing the first release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops, the 2.2 release ...