Oracle on Monday announced its own server virtualization software and claimed it was three times more efficient than rival products. VMware shares were whacked on the news.

Policy would require customers to buy a license for every processor an Oracle-equipped virtual server might touch.

Oracle VM 3.3 adds improvements to unified virtualization management for SPARC and x86 systems running Oracle VM Server, in a single console.

Oracle 3.0 is the latest release of the company's server virtualization and management product. Oracle claims to provide full stack support for virtualization from application to disk, and for cloud ...

Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.1 delivers live migration capabilities to the SPARC T-series server family, including SPARC T3, UltraSPARC T2 Plus and UltraSPARC T2 based servers, allowing customers to ...

Oracle VM Manager uses the same set of APIs that apply to both x86 and Sparc server virtualization, bringing a highly anticipated addition to Oracle VM 3.2: a new command-line interface (CLI) option.

Requirements For VirtualBox. Oracle VM VirtualBox is an free and open-source tool that you can use to run virtual servers on any computer using an x86-type processor, such as the common Intel and ...

Oracle plans to broaden its range of virtualization offerings, thanks to a number of applications obtained in the Sun Microsystems acquisition, said Oracle chief architect Edward Screven. Screven ...

Tom Fenton details the web server work he did in his experiment to use an 'Always Free' Ubuntu 18.04 VM on Oracle Cloud to host a small web site.

Oracle is preparing to roll out the latest member of its family of "engineered systems" that combine software and hardware, with the upcoming product focused on virtualization.

Squeezing software cost savings from virtualization projects is tricky for lots of reasons, but can be particularly challenging when it comes to Oracle databases. Here's why, and some tips to help.