VMware is moving to create a free version of the VMware ESXi hypervisor. The company's new CEO also plans to delve deeper into cloud computing and expand VMware's virtualization technology reach.

VMware is throwing down the gantlet at Microsoft, challenging its foe's Hyper-V server virtualization technology with free downloads of its own hypervisor-based product.

VMware made a long-anticipated move July 22 when it announced that its ESXi hypervisor would be free. That doesn't mean VMware customers can avoid pricey fees for support and management tools ...

VMware CEO Paul Maritz goes on the offensive against Microsoft Hyper-V by announcing its embedded hypervisor product, ESXi, will be free.

VMware Go is a free service designed to help first-time customers-mainly in the small-to-medium-size business market-get started with virtualization. The Web-based service automates the ...

At VMworld going on in San Francisco this week, Unitrends, a provider of enterprise-level cloud recovery, introduced Unitrends Free support for the free VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi).

Cutting the price of the embedded version of ESX will expand its user base, but it will also make customers vulnerable if they assume "appliance" means "secure out of the box." Now that ESXi has ...

I work for a small 40-person design/development shop. I wanted to move our main development server from KVM to VMware ESXi (free version). Considering VMware workstation products have always been ...

VMware Tuesday said it will offer the small-footprint version of its ESX virtualization software free, responding to pressure from Microsoft and other companies that are threatening VMware's lead ...

This free Web-based tool from VMware hopes to make virtualization management easier for SMBs Originally unveiled just prior to the start of VMworld 2009 back in August, VMware’s Web-based ESXi 4 ...