VMware executives spent much of their time at VMworld explaining the workings and benefits of virtual appliances and virtual desktop PCs. VMware this week said it is launching a program to market and ...

Everyone is familiar with hardware appliances in one form or another. It could be a wireless access point at home or a DNS server appliance in the data center. Appliances offer a prebuilt software ...

Software distribution is taking an interesting turn with virtual appliances, which combine an application and underlying operating system. If you have ever had the experience of trying out a new ...

Most organisations these days prefer to deploy most new servers as virtual machines (VMs), with physical servers deployed only in exceptional or business-justified cases. Virtual backup appliances – ...

Network and systems management tools typically come as software applications or hardware devices. But a new trend toward virtual appliances combines the ease of hardware installation with the ...

Vendors created the appliance market by delivering their software applications pre-installed on standalone servers. The goal was to simplify installation for the users and to make support easier ...

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 ...

Every now and then, a supplier of an IT application or tool tells me about their plans to encapsulate their product into a virtual machine and deliver it to the market. Although this seems to be a ...

Greg O'Connor, CEO of Trigence, and several of his colleagues, introduced me to the company's latest magic that the folks in the lab conjured up. It appears that they've been working to make ...

IRVINE, CA--(Marketwired - Jul 5, 2016) - Netwrix Corporation, the first to introduce a visibility and governance platform that supports both on-premises and hybrid cloud IT environments, today ...

Sophos has released a new edition to its line of network protection offerings, announcing today that its gateway appliances have been adopted for virtual use. They’ve simplified the pricing, with a ...