Fortunately, some very smart people are already thinking about how to solve these dicey problems. The good folks at the Distributed Management Task Force recently published a standard called the Open ...

Virtual appliances have been around for a while, but will it take a standard like DMTF's OVF to make them truly successful? Back in September 2008, the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) ...

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 ...

If you are entertaining the idea of cloud computing (and research shows that nearly every IT department is at least thinking about the cloud), then here’s a standard you need to watch, the open ...

Sun is adding support for the Open Virtualization Format standard to its VirtualBox software. Can it become the free or cheap solution that takes away market share from VMware Workstation? As Sun ...

Whenever I think of standards I'm quickly brought back to Burton Group CEO Jamie Lewis's immortal question: If a committee meets in the woods and designs a standard, but no one is there to implement ...

Open Virtualization Format could solve key problems with virtualization deployments. It's got key vendors behind it. And it's likely to be even more important as the use of cloud computing increases.

CIO.com – Quick: What part of IT data centers operations hasn’t been transformed by virtualization? After all, server virtualization’s value is well-established. Many, many companies have migrated ...