[Update: 19 June 2009] Reports are coming out that Oracle is terminating Virtual Iron as a product, which changes things somewhat. How this affects the potential changes to the virtualisation market (especially for large enterprises) time will tell.
So here we are half way through 2009, virtualisation (virtualization) and cloud computing are hot, there are new [...]

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James over at the Wisdom of the Clouds blog recently wrote a blog about “Why virtualization is shaking up IT data centers“, it is an interesting read and well worth taking five minutes over. he (as always) makes some great points and brings up the “car” analogy. This is an ok analogy for virtualization and [...]

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When it comes to desktop virtualisation there are two big players, VMware Workstation and Parallels. Less well known is the Sun offering “VirtualBox”, which is available on Windows, Linux, OpenSolaris and Mac. Unlike VMware and Parallels, Sun are providing VirtualBox for free under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
As well as being a low/no cost [...]

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