With virtualization now a mainstream technology for most large businesses, the big players like EMC (VMWare) are investing heavily in proprietary options for running multiple guest operating systems on a single machine. In addition to the commercial products, there is a vibrant open source virtualization ecosystem that CIOs can consider for public and private cloud infrastructure. In this edition of this series, we take a look at virtualization software that can consolidate infrastructure without shrinking the savings. VirtualBox is an open source desktop virtualization tool originally developed by innotek, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems.”]
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