You’ll find a virtualization solution for every Linux environment – from the desktop to the enterprise server. In this month's cover story, we investigate some promising virtualization tools for Linux users.

Following IBM, Sun Microsystems has now launched a power-saving initiative for servers.

VMware, a subsidiary of EMC which focuses on virtualization solutions, has gotten off to a flying start on the New York Stock Exchange.

The US-based Citrix corporation has just acquired XenSource, a virtualization solutions provider for US$ 500m.

US corp. XenSource announces version 4 of its XenEnterprise virtualization software for Monday.

SWsoft, which produces the Virtuozzo virtualization software among other things, reports a 127 percent increase in turnover for the first 6 months of 2007 compared to the previous year's figures.

Consolidating 3900 servers on 30 Linux mainframes based on IBM's own Z Series has helped IBM to cut its power bill considerably. Power consumption has dropped by up to 80 percent.