The ability to replicate VMs between private data centers and public clouds could make the hybrid cloud a reality Amazon Web Services’ new VM Import feature could be a game changer for hybrid cloud deployments. The product allows IT departments to move virtual machine images from their internal data centers to the cloud, as needed. [...]

Free software identifies which desktops, users, and applications are best suited for a desktop virtualization environment Quest Software recently signed an agreement to license source code from Liquidware Labs, a desktop transformation solution provider founded by David Bieneman, who earlier founded Vizioncore, a virtualization backup and management company that was acquired by Quest back in [...]

Amazon Web Services plans to make the VM Import feature compatible with more platforms for virtualization in the future Amazon Web Services has announced a new feature called VM Import, which allows IT departments to move virtual machine images from their internal data centers to the cloud. The new feature can be used in a [...]

Hewlett-Packard introduces Critical Advantage, a fourth service level for customers running critical business applications on virtualized hardware Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new level of service for customers running critical business applications on virtualized, x86-based hardware, the company announced Tuesday. Called Critical Advantage, the offering provides customers a dedicated team of engineers to help design and [...]

Desktop virtualization management suite gains Windows 7 support, multitenancy, and embedded security MokaFive has announced a new version of its virtual desktop management solution, called MokaFive Suite 3.0, that introduces full support for Windows 7, improved security, and multitenancy capabilities for managed service providers. MokaFive is one of a growing list of virtual desktop or [...]

Mobile hypervisor helps IT departments secure and manage employee smartphones, offers more flexibility with corporate phone policies Combining the words “virtualization” with “smartphone” is probably a great way to get a corporate techno geek to poke his head up from his cubicle long enough to pay attention to what you are saying. That’s exactly what [...]

VERDE 5′s desktop virtualization management and provisioning platform delivers desktops to the cloud As we near the end of 2010, one can only wonder if the desktop virtualization market will finally take hold in 2011 as the pundits have been predicting. What does seem clear is that a battle for control will continue to escalate [...]

More than 1,200 undocumented VMware .vmx parameters have been discovered, some showing signs of being Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen hypervisor-aware Could VMware be gearing up to manage hypervisors other than its own ESX hypervisor platform?  That’s the question being raised by a number of people in the virtualization community after one of their own began [...]

Microsoft’s new tool helps deliver the foundation for a private cloud platform inside of the data center For many IT departments currently evaluating or implementing a private cloud model of computing, this is the next phase or evolution in upgrading their existing virtualized data center. Part of that private cloud build-out consists of creating a [...]

A Veeam survey shows that virtualization uptake is slowed down by backup and recovery concerns Many organizations are hitting a brick wall when it comes to fully deploying virtualization in their environments. According to a recent survey, businesses are still unsure about the ability to back up and recover their virtual machines, causing many organizations [...]