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Let's start right off by tackling the most pertinent question for this article: why the heck would someone want to run Linux on a Mac system that already has a very nice Linux distro hidden beneath ...

VMware opens up the beta of VMware Studio 2.0 which can help ISVs easily create their own virtual appliances There is a brand-new beta version of VMware Studio 2.0 now being made available to the ...

I've been thinking a bit about virtual appliances lately, prompted in large part by Novell's summer announcement of its SUSE Appliance Program. Under that program, Novell gives independent software ...

Sybase and Red Hat have announced an expansion of their partnership which will include the launch of a virtual software appliance that combines the business applications specialist's database product ...

Virtual Appliances have appeared on the horizon as an unstoppable force. Where traditional appliances supplanted the office and data centre server, the virtual appliance has taken this to a new level ...

rPath, platform provider for creating and maintaining software appliances, announced the ability to create virtual appliances that run on the Xen 3.0.3 hypervisor using rPath's rBuilder. The rBuilder ...

It is one of two new virtual tape libraries the company is introducing this week aimed at bringing down the cost of the technology. The FalconStor VTL Virtual Appliance is a pre-configured, ...

Software vendors are often distributing their wares on virtual appliances with exploitable and fixable vulnerabilities, and running on outdated or unsupported operating systems: The Orca Security ...

Novell and VMware have teamed up to work with software makers to develop virtual appliances based on Suse Linux Enterprise, the companies announced at the VMworld Europe 2009 conference in Cannes. As ...

Cisco has pushed out patches for three virtual appliances that shipped with default Secure Shell (SSH) encryption key vulnerabilities, which pose a risk of a hacker decrypting traffic with the keys.

Licensing has been an issue in virtualization ever since virtual servers began multiplying the number of operating systems and applications that could run on physical servers. Virtual ...