Want a topside view of possible problems? NagVis is an easy tool for visualizing the status of your network.

The Bonsai Information Security firm has released Moth, a VMware image with a set of vulnerable web applications and scripts. It serves for testing and developing security scanners and can be instructional in all matters application security.

Synergy lets you combine multiple PCs into a single virtual desktop.

Heralded as a leap into the new era, vSphere 4.0, which was introduced April 21 as the successor to VMware's Virtual Infrastructure 3.x, is at least a logical step in the right direction upon a more sober assessment: through consolidation and automation based on an infrastructure of virtual components, a solution to satisfy turnkey IT services.

A market study by the International Data Group (IDC) has come to the conclusion that the worldwide financial crisis is a growth opportunity for Linux, both on servers and desktops. Novell was the sponsor for the survey and whitepaper.

An alliance is forming between virtualization providers Novell and VMware with a strategy for teamwork. At the same time Novell is providing a glimpse of its upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) version 11.

Red Hat's CEO, Brian Stevens, has in a webcast announced his company's virtualization strategy for 2009.