VMware executives spent much of their time at VMworld explaining the workings and benefits of virtual appliances and virtual desktop PCs. VMware this week said it is launching a program to market and ...

The move expands VMware’s earlier support for virtual appliances as a good way to try software. Now its Virtual Appliance Marketplace provides a way to buy as well. The EMC subsidiary also launched a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some time ago we noted that VMware had started a program to encourage people to create prebuilt virtual machines (or “virtual appliances” as VMware calls them) configured to do something useful. While ...

A virtual appliance is a subset of the broader class of software applications. Thus, it is an application and its OS packaged together for use in a virtualized environment. Simply put, it is a ...

As corporations increasingly virtualize their environments, they are finding that traditional physical security and network applications are not adequate for their needs. "Most network security ...

Every now and then, a supplier of an IT application or tool tells me about their plans to encapsulate their product into a virtual machine and deliver it to the market. Although this seems to be a ...

Everyone is familiar with hardware appliances in one form or another. It could be a wireless access point at home or a DNS server appliance in the data center. Appliances offer a prebuilt software ...