VMware promised a bare-metal hypervisor in 2009. Now VMware says it doesn’t need one. VMware is claiming it doesn’t need to deliver on its promise of a bare-metal desktop hypervisor, but says that if ...

Early this year, VMware announced that Workstation was free for personal use. I was very excited about it and I wrote a few articles about it. Then, this week, VMware doubled down with this ...

Although VMware got its start with a desktop virtualization product aimed at developers, the company today is best known for bringing server virtualization to the mainstream. Creating multiple virtual ...

Like many other virtualization professionals, I have done most of my work in the type 1 hypervisor space. This has been a reflection of my professional responsibilities as well as whom I try to blog ...

Virtualization watchers have speculated for years when Microsoft would throw a low-cost blow at arch-rival VMware in the desktop virtualization fight. This week, Microsoft delivered the punch via a ...

The coming fast growth of the desktop virtualization market has brought out multiple vendors, large and small, looking to gain a foothold and get their share as early as possible. Vendors of desktop ...

VMware’s VMware Horizon desktop virtualization software suite will soon deliver virtual Linux desktops over a network, in addition to the Microsoft Windows desktops it has long provided for remote ...

When I put together an overview of VMware's virtualization portfolio in May of this year, my focus--like the company's--was on their products that establish a virtualized infrastructure, and then ...

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. Client ...

Says the company could release a client hypervisor better than Citrix's fairly quickly if it wanted to, but customers aren't ready for a bare-metal hypervisor VMware is claiming it doesn’t need to ...