BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Virtualization
- the creation of a product, service, or organization that has an electronic rather than a physical existence
Additional Resources
- Red Hat Offers Virtualization Management
- Red Hat is making a late entry into the virtualization market based on the addition of support for KVM or kernel virtual machine in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 released in September. The other shoe in Red Hat's "virtualization portfolio" has now dropped with the Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers,...
- News items 2009-11-05
- Citrix desktop virtualization push: any device, any location
- Citrix on Monday said its latest desktop virtualization software will give users access to high-definition desktops from any location and from just about any device, including PCs, Macs, thin clients, laptops, netbooks and smartphones. Citrix is betting that Windows 7 will drive a new wave of desktop virtualization adoption, and...
- News items 2009-10-06
- Virtualization Comes To Macs
- SAN FRANCISCO--Deep within the exhibit halls at Macworld, Parallels, VMware and Sun Microsystems hawk the wonders of desktop virtualization. With one-click glimpses into competing operating systems like Windows and Ubuntu, the vendors woo Mac users to fire up a new operating system--at least temporarily. email print reprint newsletter comments share...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Virtualization Adoption Growing, but Security a Concern: Survey
- Businesses are rapidly adopting server virtualization in their data centers, and plan to continue the high growth rate, according to a survey conducted by Centrify. More than half of the respondents said they use VMware technologies, though many also use solutions from such vendors as Citrix, HP, IBM, Sun and...
- News items 2009-09-01
- Microsoft Touts Virtualization Management for Smaller Businesses
- Microsoft may be blocked from advertising its virtualization offerings on the convention floor at VMWorld 2009, but Redmond has nonetheless announced a virtualization management package for SMBs (small- to medium-sized businesses) along with partners Fujitsu and Lenovo. As the virtualization market increases and becomes the scene of fiercer competition, Microsoft,...
- News items 2009-09-02
- A Tipping Point for Virtualization
- Dana Gardner submits: Virtualization has certainly taken off, but less attention gets directed to how to better manage virtualization, to gain better security using virtualization techniques, and also to find methods for compliance and regulation of virtualized environments -- without the pitfalls of complexity and confusion.We seem to be at...
- External links 2008-10-02
- IBM To Offer Desktop Virtualization
- Both VMware and Citrix produce virtual desktop infrastructure products; they supply end user access control to desktop provisioning servers and management consoles for thousands of concurrent users. With the help of partner Desktone, IBM is offering such services from its one-year-old Web services cloud. Arthur Chiang, VP...
- News items 2009-09-01
- Virtualization's Legacy
- BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Citrix Chief Technology Officer Simon Crosby--whose company shepherds the Xen open source hypervisor project but focuses on delivering virtual desktops--talked to Forbes about what the changing role of operating systems means for desktop software and the applications that run on it. Forbes: What will future operating systems...
- News items 2009-10-06
- Pano Logic Rolls Out Latest Desktop Virtualization Offering
- A day after Citrix and VMware showed off new capabilities in their desktop virtualization products, Pano Logic is announcing Version 2.8 of its Pano System. Pano Logic?s desktop virtualization offering centralizes all the processing, memory and software on a central server, and leaves only a zero-client Pano Device on the...
- News items 2009-10-07
- Egenera Awarded Best Virtualization Solution at BladeSystems Insight
- Egenera Inc., the data center virtualization company, today announced its award for Best Virtualization Product at BladeSystems Insight, a prominent summit for data center-focused IT executives. Nominated and voted on solely by attendees, the Insight Award for Best Virtualization Solution recognizes the most innovative virtualization solution that drives business...
- Research articles 2008-05-30
- InfoWorld Sets Agenda for Market Maker Event on Enterprise Virtualization; Virtualization Executive Forum on September 25-26 in New York City Focused on Enabling Virtualization Across the Enterprise
- SAN FRANCISCO -- IDG's InfoWorld, the leading integrated media brand for IT solutions management, today announced the agenda for Virtualization Executive Forum, taking place on September 25 and 26 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The executive-level event is designed to demystify the path to successful virtualization of...
- Research articles 2006-07-26
- Live Webcast: Scale Up and Save: Best Practices for High-Density Virtualization & Consolidation
- Fast-paced and resource-constrained environments of today require IT decision makers to take fresh approaches in order to keep up with dynamic organizations. Join NEC and Intel in this live TechRepublic Webcast to understand market drivers for high density virtualization hosting. Discuss how leading edge...
- Webcasts 2009-09-01
- Hitachi First to Develop Intel Itanium 2 Processor Chipsets Supporting FSB Speeds of 667MHz and Hitachi's Virtualization Feature With Intel Virtualization Technology
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT)(TOKYO:6501) today announced the development and operational verification of the world's first chipset supporting FSB Front Side Bus speeds of 667MHz for the IntelR ItaniumR 2 Processor. In addition, the development also employs Hitachi's virtualization feature with IntelR (Santa Clara, CA USA) Virtualization Technology. The...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Virtualization gets nod from HP, VCs (Electronic News)
- Virtualization technology is being used in a variety of forms today: In the IT space, virtualization promises reduced maintenance costs, minimal application updates and a higher level of security; in the semiconductor development area, virtualizatio Virtualization technology is being used in a variety of forms...
- Research articles 2007-07-30
- Egenera PAN Manager Software Key Component of Dell Virtualization Solutions Portfolio
- Egenera Inc., the data center virtualization company, today announced the Dell PAN System as a key component of Dell's virtualization solutions portfolio (see today's Dell news release, "Dell Unveils Virtualization Blockbuster"). Dell and Egenera are partnering to deliver the dynamic data center to customers -- making virtualization and data...
- Research articles 2008-05-07
- Red Hat Formally Announces 'Integrated Virtualization'; AMD, Intel, Network Appliance and XenSource Join Red Hat to Ensure Customers Receive the Full Benefits of Virtualization, from Red Hat's New Software and Tools to the Chipset
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today formally announced its 'Integrated Virtualization' strategy. During a launch today in San Francisco, company executives detailed plans for creating a Red Hat virtualization environment and working with partners such as AMD,...
- Research articles 2006-03-14
- Softricity Kicks Off World-Wide Virtualization Tour with Microsoft Field; Demonstrates Ease and Simplicity of Softricity's Application Virtualization and Software Streaming Integrated into Microsoft SMS
- NEW YORK -- Softricity yesterday kicked off their Virtualization Tour with Microsoft field teams at an inaugural sold-out seminar at the Microsoft Office in New York City. As part of a campaign to introduce the power of virtualization to customers, the field force from both companies will host over 10...
- Research articles 2006-03-22
- Interview: HP's Virtualization Head on IT Transformation Strategies
- Dana Gardner submits: Hewlett-Packard HPQ announced a series of wide-ranging virtualization products, services and initiatives on Sept. 2. The drive indicates a global and long-term surge by HP on managing solutions for virtualization, but in the context of business outcomes and in a management framework that includes larger IT transformation...
- External links 2008-09-03
- Sumitomo Electric Industries chooses Novell for Xen Virtualization; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Xen on Intel Virtualization Technology extends life of applications and platforms, simplifies disaster recovery.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-12 April 2007-NOVELL: Sumitomo Electric Industries chooses Novell for Xen Virtualization; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Xen on Intel Virtualization Technology extends life of applications and platforms, simplifies disaster recoveryC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12042007 WALTHAM, Mass. - Novell today...
- Research articles 2007-04-12
- Virtual Iron Among Industry Thought Leaders at InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum
- Virtual Iron Software ( www.virtualiron.com ), a provider of server virtualization and virtual infrastructure management software solutions, announced that its founder, Alex Vasilevsky, will be a feature panelist at the InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum taking place today and tomorrow in New York. Vasilevsky will join executives from VMware, Microsoft, XenSource,...
- Research articles 2007-09-24
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