It can be daunting for IT administrators to sort through the many vendors that offer desktop and application virtualization software to find the right product that fits their organization’s size and meets their specific needs. Before making any decisions, admins should examine the features each system offers for desktop virtualization, application virtualization, systems management, data […]

The Xen Project, which develops an open source hypervisor hosted by the Linux Foundation, announced the release of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.13. The project site says it “is focused on advancing virtualization in a number of different commercial and open source applications, including server virtualization, Infrastructure-as-a-Services (IaaS), desktop virtualization, security applications, embedded and hardware appliances, […]

The Linux Foundation has announced a new hypervisor for use in embedded and internet of things scenarios. Project ACRN (pronounced “acorn”) will offer a “hypervisor, and its device model complete with rich I/O mediators.” There’ll also be “a Linux-based Service OS” and the ability to “run guest operating systems (another Linux instance, an RTOS, Android, […]