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• What's next with hypervisors?

  By John Dix | 13 December, 2011 22:28

  The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly.

• Citrix unveils bare-metal desktop hypervisor, ahead of VMware

  By Jon Brodkin | 13 May, 2010 04:42

  Citrix is unveiling its bare-metal desktop hypervisor, known as XenClient, with a test version being released for download this week and general availability expected within a few months.

• Researchers to cure Blue Pill virtualization attacks

  By Joab Jackson | 10 May, 2010 05:38

  Two researchers from North Carolina State University have developed software that they say can protect virtualization hypervisors from malicious "Blue Pill" rootkit threats.

• Parallels launches bare-metal hypervisor

  By Maxwell Cooter | 10 October, 2009 00:51

  It took some time to arrive but Parallels has entered new territory with the launch of its bare metal hypervisor. Parallels Server Bare Metal is aimed squarely at cloud computing providers enabling them to offer a range of new services to their customers.

• Red Hat virtualization, cloud strategy targets major players

  By John Fontana | 04 September, 2009 08:12

  Red Hat this week lined up nose-to-nose with VMware and Microsoft laying out its bid to become a top-tier provider of virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure software for both the enterprise and service providers.

• HP automates management of VMware, virtualisation systems

  By Denise Dubie | 09 April, 2009 01:47

  HP Wednesday announced updates to its business service automation suite designed to help customers cut the cost of managing virtualisation and improve service quality.

• Citrix drops price of hypervisor to zero

  By Jon Brodkin | 24 February, 2009 02:18

  Citrix on Monday is making its core virtualization platform free, and announcing an enhanced partnership with Microsoft to promote interoperability between Citrix's XenServer hypervisor and Microsoft's Hyper-V software.

• Citrix plans 'bare metal' desktop hypervisor

  By James Niccolai | 22 January, 2009 09:10

  Citrix Systems is working with Intel to develop a "bare metal" hypervisor for client PCs, which proponents say could broaden the use of desktop virtualization by overcoming some of the technology's shortcomings today.

• Free version of Hyper-V now available

  By Elizabeth Montalbano | 02 October, 2008 10:33

  Following a similar move by VMware in August, Microsoft Wednesday released a free, low-footprint version of its Hyper-V virtualization software as it continues to chase the virtualization leader.

• Microsoft liberalizes virtualization options

  By Eric Lai | 04 September, 2008 08:22

  As Microsoft officially released its Application Virtualization 4.5 software this week, it also announced several licensing changes around virtual desktops and application virtualization, while omitting a long-anticipated one.