Virtual appliances have been around for a while, but will it take a standard like DMTF's OVF to make them truly successful? Back in September 2008, the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) ...

The issue of incompatible virtual machine formats has the attention of the major players in the virtualization industry, so three of the biggest are teaming up with some hardware makers in hopes of ...

Citrix will ship in the third quarter a technical preview of Open Virtual Machine format tools that will allow developers and IT pros to create virtual, portable application workloads that run on ...

Fortunately, some very smart people are already thinking about how to solve these dicey problems. The good folks at the Distributed Management Task Force recently published a standard called the Open ...

Whenever I think of standards I'm quickly brought back to Burton Group CEO Jamie Lewis's immortal question: If a committee meets in the woods and designs a standard, but no one is there to implement ...

If you are entertaining the idea of cloud computing (and research shows that nearly every IT department is at least thinking about the cloud), then here’s a standard you need to watch, the open ...

I was recently involved in a VMware virtual machine migration project that required I use VMware Converter Standalone. VMware Converter Standalone is a solid and stable migration tool that comes with ...

Virtualization is rapidly transforming the information landscape and changing the way that people compute. Today’s powerful x86 computer hardware was originally designed to run only a single operating ...