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Novell and SWsoft have announced a deal that will see SWsoft's Virtuozzo distributed with Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10, in the latest sign of the growing importance of operating system virtualisation.

Virtualization leader VMware has published a white paper condemning what it calls Microsoft's moves to block competition in the virtualization market, the most public sign to date of the friction between the companies.

SWsoft, an x86 virtualization software firm that is charging after a market dominated by VMware, is partnering with Microsoft to provide customers 24/7 support.

Parallels, which makes Parallels Desktop for Mac software, acknowledged Monday that it is owned by SWSoft after a report in Fortune magazine broke news of the relationship between the companies.

The virtualization market is expected to heat up this year as Microsoft and the open source Xen project challenge VMware, which has been the only game in town when it comes to virtualizing x86 servers.

Lots of companies these days are stretching their hardware and energy dollars by consolidating print, file, DNS, and Web servers on virtualization platforms such as VMware. But not many companies boast of running their entire production infrastructure on virtual machines. An exception is Arvato Mobile, a division of Bertelsmann that builds mobile solutions for network operators, media companies, and Internet portals and delivers digital entertainment content to consumers around the globe.

Zeus Technology has produced a new version of its traffic management software.

SWsoft's OpenVZ project, which develops an open source virtualization product, has announced availability of beta level software based on the Linux kernel 2.6.18 -- preparing users for the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) and Debian GNU/Linux 4 releases.

As x86 server virtualization software vendors roll out tools to better manage virtual environments, corporate users in growing numbers are looking at virtualization technology for more than test and development and simple server consolidation, according to a pair of reports from IDC.

Data center managers have adopted server virtualization wholeheartedly in the past year, across a variety of businesses for nearly every kind of application, as a way to reduce oversight and hardware costs, IT managers and analysts said at Infrastructure Management World held this week in the US.

Peek inside most enterprise data centers today, and you'll probably find at least one or two x86 boxes running VMware's server virtualization software. Odds are good the technology got there as part of an effort to consolidate an upward-spiraling number of industry-standard servers.