Virtual software appliances are applications — mostly server ones, at this point — that come to users prepackaged with a thin operating system layer. Essentially virtual machines (VM) created ...

Newly arrived Doyenz offers its cloud-based managed service called 'Automated Virtual IT' to SMBs. Imagine it as a virtual computer vendor in the clouds.

With virtual appliances, an OS just needs to provide interfaces for the applications running on top of it. As a result, OSs will get smaller and thinner, ...

Appliances have a solid place in the IT world as vendors take a stand-alone system and install their software on top for a very specific purpose. Storage appliances, network appliances, antispam ...

10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch We’re not talking about software-as-a-service (SaaS). As much as many IT executives dread the traditional software deployment process, some never bought into ...

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"We figured with the rise of virtualization, which is mainstream as of 2008, that people are used to consuming virtual appliances." So now just about all 30 or so BitNami Stacks, including those for ...

Virtual appliances are "much more amenable to software that doesn't have a license fee. Otherwise, it's hard to get beyond demoware, a la Microsoft's recent announcement," Haff said.

"A virtual appliance is a VM that's deployed in a very specific way that makes it really simple to deploy and limits the options to configure a million different things," said Colbert.

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 ...

Virtual appliances cure appliance bloat ...

Intel sees the opportunity to add capabilities to PCs using virtualization technology and software that would improve security and communications. Close Latest News ...