VMware executives spent much of their time at VMworld explaining the workings and benefits of virtual appliances and virtual desktop PCs. VMware this week said it is launching a program to market and ...

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Network and systems management tools typically come as software applications or hardware devices. But a new trend toward virtual appliances combines the ease of hardware installation with the ...

Vendors created the appliance market by delivering their software applications pre-installed on standalone servers. The goal was to simplify installation for the users and to make support easier ...

As corporations increasingly virtualize their environments, they are finding that traditional physical security and network applications are not adequate for their needs. “Most network security ...

Everyone is familiar with hardware appliances in one form or another. It could be a wireless access point at home or a DNS server appliance in the data center. Appliances offer a prebuilt software ...

When most people talk about the adoption of virtualization, they are really talking about the adoption of server virtualization. While there is no doubt that server virtualization is the most common ...

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Every now and then, a supplier of an IT application or tool tells me about their plans to encapsulate their product into a virtual machine and deliver it to the market. Although this seems to be a ...

Licensing has been an issue in virtualization ever since virtual servers began multiplying the number of operating systems and applications that could run on physical servers. Virtual appliances — ...

Most organisations these days prefer to deploy most new servers as virtual machines (VMs), with physical servers deployed only in exceptional or business-justified cases. Virtual backup appliances – ...

Greg O'Connor, CEO of Trigence, and several of his colleagues, introduced me to the company's latest magic that the folks in the lab conjured up. It appears that they've been working to make ...