The IT media has reported a couple of times within the last few months that Intel sold many of its shares in VMware. Analysts said that the chip maker has probably decided to invest more in the producer of paravirtualization virtualization technology producer - Citrix. This month Intel and Citrix announced they join forces to develop a version of Xen for personal computers and this sparked the speculations about the birth of a new “client hypervisor”. The new Xen version is not aimed for the consumer market. Intel and Citrix are developing the technology for big enterprises with a large...

According to a “Virtualization Industry Survey“, a research work conducted and published by Virtualization.info among 1,050 respondents Hyper-V, the relatively new virtualization technology by Microsoft. Question 6 of the survey is “What hardware virtualization platform do you implement?“. It is a closed question which offers respondents multiple choices to as answers. Among the options are 8 hypervisor choices - VMware ESX, Hyper-V, Xen Server, Virtual Iron, SuSe, RHEL, Oracle VM, KVM, as well an answer “None”. Hyper-V receives 600 responses with 475 for EXS...

Cisco Systems announced that it will start selling servers equipped with virtualization software in March 2009. The networking equipment producer combines hardware and virtualization technologies from VMWare  as well as its own applications. the company’s move to data storage and hosting industry has been a target of speculation for a long time. The Cisco server will not be target enterprise hosting and data center market. The analysts say that the company identifies as key business area the consumer-generated content and prepares to provide web based software to customers. Cisco is the...