OVF is exactly what the industry needs to push server virtualization toward more dynamic data centers and integration with cloud computing.

With VMworld 2008 upon us next month, the challenges virtualization presents IT managers is top of mind for many vendors and industry organizations.

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 ...

The success of the DMTF's effort led participating vendors (including VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and Novell) to develop the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard, which recently had its coming out ...

“OVF is a game-changer for how services and applications can be used in the data center,” Bumpus says. “It’s predominantly for virtual servers at this point, but it will enable IT managers ...

Sun Microsystems has released VirtualBox 2.2, an update to the company's free and open source desktop virtualization solution. The new release includes a number of performance and feature enhancements ...

My fallback plan was to use the VMware Open Virtualization Format, or OVF. The OVF is a platform-independent, efficient, extensible, and open packaging and distribution format for all VMs.

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?

Back in September 2008, the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) announced the virtualization standard known as the Open Virtualization Format, or OVF, had reached the preliminary standard status.

Sun Microsystems has released VirtualBox 2.2, an update to the company's free and open source desktop virtualization solution. The new release includes a number of performance and feature enhancements ...

The new release includes a number of performance and feature enhancements, as well as support for the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) specification. VirtualBox, which, according to Sun, has had more ...