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 ...

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 ...

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The Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. (DMTF) has announced that its Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and Server Management Command Line Protocol (SM CLP) specifications have been adopted as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding an advanced, more powerful 128-bit ZFS file system, new virtualization technologies and the Postgres open-source database to its Solaris 10 Unix operating system, as ...