Open source tools can provide various benefits that proprietary products sometimes lack, such as improvements in flexibility and agility, speed, costs and security. Admins can find open source options ...

Virtualization is unarguably one of the biggest trends of the past few years, and open-source software has been on the IT radar for a while now. So does that make open-source virtualization twice as ...

Open source efforts to make it easier for companies to virtualize data center resources, whether they are Linux- or Windows-based, will be on full display this week at the LinuxWorld Conference and ...

SWSoft is putting its virtualization software into the open source community with the introduction of the Server Virtualization Open Source Project, or OpenVZ, which is freely available at the OpenVZ ...

You don't have to use proprietary virtualization software to run virtual machines. The open source community boasts offerings for all different virtualization needs, so you can assemble a program that ...

VirtualBox is often considered among the best virtual machine software available, particularly for users looking for a free and flexible solution. Its cross-platform support and open-source model make ...

Xen, an open-source project with growing ties to Red Hat, Novell and Hewlett-Packard, is emerging as the leading contender for providing open-source virtualization for the Linux environment. Ian Pratt ...

Born back in 2008 and hailing from Austria, Proxmox Virtual Environment (often abbreviated as PVE) is based on Debian, and its purpose is to provide a management platform for virtual machines that use ...

Can you imagine if open-source apps had an associated price? I wouldn't blame my favorites if they did.