With VMworld 2008 upon us next month, the challenges virtualization presents IT managers is top of mind for many vendors and industry organizations. One group in particular, the Distributed Management ...

Open source tools can provide various benefits that proprietary products sometimes lack, such as improvements in flexibility and agility, speed, costs and security. Admins can find open source options ...

News about management standards doesn’t often excite industry watchers, but the recent debut of the Distributed Management Task Force’s (DMTF) Open Virtualization Format standard could change all that ...

Microsoft said Tuesday that it would open up its virtualization format technology, adding the Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) specification to the Open Specification Promise, first introduced in ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Users have different formats available to store virtual machine disk files. On VMware products, the VMware-specific Virtual Machine Disk file is used as a default. This file format isn't compatible ...