VMware CEO Paul Maritz said the company has considered open sourcing its hypervisor and supporting virtualization tools made by competitors, but didn’t give any indication about if or when those ...

VMware made a long-anticipated move July 22 when it announced that its ESXi hypervisor would be free. That doesn’t mean VMware customers can avoid pricey fees for support and management tools, though.

Virtualization is no longer just an infrastructure decision. Here's how changing costs, AI workloads, hybrid environments and ...

In two recent articles, I discussed how VMware made its type two hypervisor, Workstation Pro, free for personal use and how easy it was to install on my Windows 10 laptop. In this article, I will ...

The VMware announcement stated that Fusion Pro (macOS) and Workstation Pro (Windows and Linux) now comes in two license models: Free Personal Use and Paid Commercial Use subscriptions. VMware refers ...

More than 80 percent of VMware income comes from higher-level tools, a move that gives the EMC subsidiary more breathing room against rivals. Getting real about virtualization Stephen Shankland worked ...

Citrix says it has returned to the mainstream server virtualization market with the release of XenServer 9. The hypervisor ...

The widespread use of VMware's ESXi hypervisor and the fact that it does not support any third-party malware detection capabilities has made the technology an increasingly attractive target for ...

Citrix and Microsoft are closing ground, but VMware remains the only vendor with a hypervisor that can meet every enterprise requirement VMware is still the only virtualization vendor whose hypervisor ...

Virtualization, the process of abstracting physical hardware by creating multiple virtual machines (VMs) with independent operating systems and tasks, has been in computing since the 1960s. Now, with ...