VMware executives spent much of their time at VMworld explaining the workings and benefits of virtual appliances and virtual desktop PCs. VMware this week said it is launching a program to market and ...

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Virtualisation software supplier VMware announced the launch of the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge — a contest with $200,000 (£115,000) worth of prizes at stake — on Monday. According to the ...

Canonical, the Europe-based commercial Ubuntu vendor, has released an optimized version of Ubuntu for VMware virtual appliances. It’s called “Ubuntu JeOS edition” — the JeOS refers to the VMware ...

In our last newsletter we discussed some of the benefits of virtual appliances. In this newsletter we will discuss some of the potential challenges that are associated with virtual appliances. One of ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Licensing has been an issue in virtualization ever since virtual servers began multiplying the number of operating systems and applications that could run on physical servers. Virtual appliances — ...

Axcient, a provider of cloud-based recovery-as-a-service, has introduced the Axcient Virtual Appliance for VMware environments. According to the company, the Axcient cloud platform mirrors a business’ ...

The combination of free open source and virtual machines is hard to beat; here are some of the handiest virtual appliances Virtual appliances are great for the same reasons physical appliances took ...