Virtually Speaking: Vendors are gearing up to aggregate computing power in the cloud.

Virtually Speaking: With IT budgets still in the dumper, the virtual desktop may give Windows 7 a sizable boost. VMware Workstation 7 is being positioned accordingly.

Virtually Speaking: Two companies announced products this week to bridge the cloud to the virtualized data center divide. Cloud is growing up fast.

If Red Hat is to be believed, its KVM virtualization technology is so advanced it will consign the Xen hypervisor to the technological scrap heap, altering the virtualization landscape completely.

Virtually Speaking: Cisco has added rack-mount servers to its unified computing system offerings. Will enterprises bite?

Virtually Speaking: In the face of Windows 7's approaching official release date and Snow Leopard's recent release, VMware Tuesday unveiled a new version of its desktop virtualization environment for Macs. Is it the glue to a heterogeneous client environment?

Virtually Speaking: Think twice before you stick those legacy apps on a virtual machine and forget about them.

Virtually Speaking: Intel began pimping its Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) solution at this week's IDF. Dell, Citrix Red Hat, Neterion and others have already hopped on board.

Virtually Speaking: With the OS and hypervisor converging, the phrase 'heterogeneous data center' may soon have new meaning.

Virtually Speaking: As VMworld demonstrated, the fight for virtual domination is far from over. After the show came to a close, however, a new player entered the ring. The impact of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the virtual landscape has yet to be felt, but one thing is clear. Red Hat’s commitment to KVM means it’s in it for the long haul.

Virtually Speaking: The competition is crying foul over VMware's exhibit hall policies, but there has been no shortage of news out of San Jose this week. Starting with VMware itself.

Virtually Speaking: As VMworld '09 comes closer, VMware annouces its intent to acquire two companies for the price of one, raising some questions about its latest directional shift.

VMware will pick up the Java web development and middleware vendor for $362 million plus unvested stock and options

Virtually Speaking: Microsoft claims a 24-point increase in Hyper-V penetration, but exactly what and how it's measuring is unclear. VMware, meanwhile, may be suiting up to grow its high-end base.

Cover Your Assets: Head for the shores of virtualization's peaceful and freeing refuge.

Virtually Speaking: Oracle elaborates on its plans for Virtual Iron's product line. Not a pretty picture for many customers.

Virtually Speaking: With POWER 7, Big Blue seeks to bridge the virtualization gap between x86 and the mainframe.

Virtually Speaking: As businesses-critical workloads get moved to virtual servers, VMware looks to manage a new set of pain points.

Virtually Speaking: Everybody is talking about virtualization, but not everyone is at the same place in the migration from physical to virtual to ... cloud?

Storage and IT luminaries recently gathered to discuss the future. The consensus? Cloud and virtual environments will dominate.

Virtually Speaking: As 2009 hits the halfway mark, virtualization seems tied with Twitter in popularity. For virtualization, however, the business value is more clear.

Several new products and services expand Dell's virtualization offerings down to the mid-market and continue the firm's simplification drive.

Virtually Speaking: Will be VMware be a big fish whose market share swallows Xen's, or is it more likely to jump the shark?

Virtually Speaking: As cloud computing and virtualization move past vaporware, they make a nice couple. Although they often appear together, neither relies on the other. The jury remains out, however, on whether it's a fling or a marriage.

Virtually Speaking: Green IT is gaining ground, and virtualization is a popular way for enterprises to get there.