VMware made a long-anticipated move July 22 when it announced that its ESXi hypervisor would be free. That doesn’t mean VMware customers can avoid pricey fees for support and management tools, though.

VMware CEO Paul Maritz said the company has considered open sourcing its hypervisor and supporting virtualization tools made by competitors, but didn’t give any indication about if or when those ...

VMware Tuesday said it will offer the small-footprint version of its ESX virtualization software free, responding to pressure from Microsoft and other companies that are threatening VMware’s lead in ...

More than 80 percent of VMware income comes from higher-level tools, a move that gives the EMC subsidiary more breathing room against rivals. Getting real about virtualization Stephen Shankland worked ...

Samsung plans to make phones running VMware’s mobile hypervisor technology and enterprises may be able to better manage those phones with new software from VMware, the virtualization company is ...

Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant report for x86 server virtualization infrastructure shows that the two leading companies in the space -- VMware and Microsoft -- continue to outpace the competition, ...

We are strong believers in disaggregation and composability here at The Next Platform, and we think that eventually the tyranny of the physical confines and configurations of motherboard will be over.

MIAMI, USA--Nutanix has introduced two key products that push the vitualization vendor up the software stack, pitting it more firmly against VMware, as it seeks to ease the deployment and management ...

VMware has two big desktop virtualization technology improvements waiting in the wings. Will they win over enterprise IT leaders who've been watching and waiting on desktop virtualization?