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 ...

Software distribution is taking an interesting turn with virtual appliances, which combine an application and underlying operating system. If you have ever had the experience of trying out a new ...

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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 ...

Axcient this week expanded its cloud-based recovery-as-a-service offering with the introduction of a virtual appliance version of its data protection appliance, thereby freeing partners and customers ...

Virtual appliances allow the vendor to pre-build the underlying OS and the UC Application, along with a definition of the virtual hardware resource requirements. A "virtual" appliance?!? What on earth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The combination of free open source and virtual machines is hard to beat; here are some of the handiest virtual appliances Virtual appliances are great for the same reasons physical appliances took ...