Oracle took a pre-emptive strike at VMware this week, maintaining that its integrated and expansive virtualization portfolio is far superior to the "point" solution offered by the No 1 virtualization ...

VMware may have pioneered enterprise virtualization, but until Monday it had been relatively quiet when it comes to Docker containers, the popular lightweight form of application virtualization. Now ...

As VMware pushes its vision for private clouds built around its core virtualization technology, rival vendors are ramping their efforts to create an alternative stack.… OpenNebula, the open source ...

Everywhere we turn in the datacenter, monolithic software is being smashed into smaller chunks that can be isolated from each other and tweaked as needed without having to recompile and test a giant ...

As enterprises continue to grapple with the virtual machine sprawl, the need for virtualization optimization has become more pressing for maximal resource utilization. Through out-of-the-box ...

My colleague Paula Rooney just posted Oracle: Our full virtualization stack beats VMware. I thought I'd add comments coming from another viewpoint to the discussion. Regardless of the truth of ...