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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 ...

When most people talk about the adoption of virtualization, they are really talking about the adoption of server virtualization. While there is no doubt that server virtualization is the most common ...

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 ...

Virtual appliances allow the vendor to pre-build the underlying OS and the UC Application, along with a definition of the virtual hardware resource requirements. A "virtual" appliance?!? What on earth ...

It is one of two new virtual tape libraries the company is introducing this week aimed at bringing down the cost of the technology. The FalconStor VTL Virtual Appliance is a pre-configured, ...

I was speaking with Certeon about recently released performance figures for their network/application acceleration virtual appliance that can be hosted both on VMware's ESX Server or Microsort's Hyper ...

VKernel is well known for their use of the virtual appliance. And the company is continuing down that virtual path with its latest offering - the VKernel Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer Virtual Appliance ...

CUPERTINO, Calif., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at VMworld 2010, Trend Micro announced that Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Virtual Appliance (IMSVA) is the first of its kind to achieve VMware ...

If you're looking to do a trial of OrangeHRM, one of the easiest methods is via a virtual appliance. Jack Wallen shows you how this is done. OrangeHRM is one of the most widely-used open-source human ...

Axcient this week expanded its cloud-based recovery-as-a-service offering with the introduction of a virtual appliance version of its data protection appliance, thereby freeing partners and customers ...

VMware opens up the beta of VMware Studio 2.0 which can help ISVs easily create their own virtual appliances There is a brand-new beta version of VMware Studio 2.0 now being made available to the ...