VMware, Citrix Xen, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun...all are highly active players now in the visualization space, so here is a brief round-up of recent SYS-CON.com stories featuring these and other companies - offered as part of our quest to provide information about all the latest trends, technologies, and news that relates to virtualization.

Sun Introduces Its New Virtualization Offering in San Francisco
Sun introduced its new virtualization offering yesterday, the Sun xVM hypervisor - a very lightweight kernel that inherits proven virtualization technologies (like ZFS, FMA, Dtrace and Crossbow ) from the Solaris kernel while supporting Linux, Windows and Solaris as guests - imbuing guest OSes with the properties of the host hypervisor.
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SOA, Virtualization and Web 2.0: BEA's Deputy CTO Connects the Dots
BEA's Deputy CTO Theo Beack, who joined the San Jose, CA-based company in May to do 'all the cool stuff,' according to an exclusive interview with SYS-CON at the time, shared with delegates at SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 in San Francisco today his current thinking about Web 2.0, SOA, and Virtualization technologies, and how all three fit within BEA's evolving 'blended' application strategy.
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Ellison's Pillar Data Announces Oracle VM Virtualization Support
Launched at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle VM server virtualization software supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle VM offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization that is up to three times more efficient than existing products from other vendors. Key Oracle products including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications are certified with Oracle VM.
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Desktop Virtualization - What's the Best Approach?
Thinking about desktop virtualization, but still trying to figure out the best approach for your project? Join Kidaro Founder and Vice President Ran Kohavi for a discussion of today’s different models for delivering virtual desktops.
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Red Hat's CTO Keynotes Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco
Red Hat's automation strategy ('any application, anywhere, anytime') is the backbone of its strategy for the infrastructure future, said chief technology officer and vice president of engineering, Brian Stevens, as he gave the Virtualization Keynote in San Francisco this morning entitled 'The Future of the Virtual Enterprise' at SYS-CON Events' Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco.
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Virtual Iron Plans to Join Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program
Virtual Iron Software has announced its plans to join Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program when available in June 2008. With this program, Virtual Iron will test and validate the Virtual Iron platform running Windows Server 2008 and prior versions of Microsoft's server operating system.
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VMware Updates Fusion Virtualization Software for the Mac
VMware has announced VMware Fusion 1.1, a new update to its VMware Fusion desktop virtualization software for Intel-based Macs. VMware Fusion allows Mac users to run Mac OS X, Windows and other PC-based applications on the same Mac. VMware Fusion 1.1 is a free update that is immediately available for all VMware Fusion 1.0 customers.
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If VMware Is "Virtualization 1.0" Then Who Is the Avatar Of "Virtualization 2.0"?
Well, Egenera - which has no market cap at all because it hasn't gone public yet - claims it is. IDC, which coined the term, defines 'Virtualization 2.0' as the next step beyond server virtualization replete with faster provisioning, high availability, disaster recovery, resource balancing and ultimately policy-based automation. Egenera says IDC is speaking its name.
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Is File Virtualization the Next Great Wave?
Thomas Wong Tom shares his vision for the future of file virtualization as it expands from the data center to the edges of customer networks and eventually to the laptops of the mobile users. At the end of the sessions, the attendees should be able to judge whether File Virtualization is indeed the next Great Wave.
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