The software giant rounded out its online productivity offerings, putting it once again in direct competition with perennial rivals.

Will the marriage of Xen and vPro save IS departments money and improve security?

Virtualizing a system is much easier than backing it up and restoring it.

Malware authors and hackers may take aim at these developing enterprise technologies.

The vendor reveals its plans to become a major virtualization player with an improved desktop virtualization product.

In 2009, expect to see big deals and sprawling new enterprise offerings emerging in cloud computing, Web 2.0 and virtualization.

Cutting costs and improving manageability is the name of the game with two new virtualization offerings.

Big Blue is taking even more aggressive route to the cloud. But will it help consolidate industry standards?

Sales of mainframes are up, but the number of skilled administrators and managers is down. CA angles to be part of the solution

Big Blue has begun offering its popular enterprise messaging and groupware client as a hosted service. Will it be able to compete?

Big Blue is sprucing up its tools to help ISVs and clients collaborate and build their own cloud computing services.

Rethinking data center design to lower costs and reduce power is paying off for HP and its customers.

IT infrastructure should be treated as 'a single giant computer on which applications can be provisioned in a more manageable, scalable way.'

New efforts aim to simplify and encourage enterprises' use of pre-built software delivered through the technology.

If HP, BMC and Fortisphere have their way, the lack of tools to manage virtualized environments will become a problem of the past.

Virtualization newbie Microsoft and market leader VMware play nice, up to a point, with validation program.

It had to happen sooner or later. VMware's hypervisor caught its first bug. The problem itself is relatively minor. More important is how VMware is handling it as well as its partners' and users' perceptions.

Don't yet the naysayers fool you, with sales up and software development continuing, the mainframe is far from dead.

Citrix CTO Simon Crosby explains how emerging standards in virtualization are bringing enterprises closer to the promise of any where, any time computing.

As enterprises continue investing heavily in virtual environments and infrastructure, more vendors are going live with tools to manage the proliferation. 3Leaf, Hyperic and SunGard announced new offerings this week.

Virtualization is rendering tried and true strategies for backup and recovery inadequate. Symantec explained why they're due for an overhaul.

Deploying Hyper-V? Now you can run SPARC-based Solaris apps on x86 Windows servers without porting or recompiling.

It didn't take long for theories about Diane Greene's departure to begin circulating. Was the culprit bad blood or simple strategy? As a former Microsoft exec takes the helm, CEO speculations continue, this time about the company's future.

With PCI Toolbox, Rackspace is aiming to put an end to the guessing game behind PCI solutions.

VMware's entry-level virtualization package picks up a host of new features and comes one step closer to being production ready.