With VMworld 2008 upon us next month, the challenges virtualization presents IT managers is top of mind for many vendors and industry organizations.

My fallback plan was to use the VMware Open Virtualization Format, or OVF. The OVF is a platform-independent, efficient, extensible, and open packaging and distribution format for all VMs.

OVF is exactly what the industry needs to push server virtualization toward more dynamic data centers and integration with cloud computing.

The proposed format, called the Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF), uses existing packaging tools to combine one or more virtual machines together with a standards-based XML wrapper, giving the ...

Over the past few years, the hypervisor makers have convened on a standard for VM portability, called the Open Virtualization Format (OVF).

“OVF is a game-changer for how services and applications can be used in the data center,” Bumpus says. “It’s predominantly for virtual servers at this point, but it will enable IT managers ...

The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) is best known in the cloud standards world for its Open Virtualization Format (OVF) specification that’s been highly adopted by cloud vendors today ...

Citrix will ship in the third quarter a technical preview of Open Virtual Machine format tools that will allow developers and IT pros to create virtual, portable application workloads that run on ...

Skytap said it is providing support for the Open Virtualization Format (OVF), a Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standard for packaging and distributing virtual machines.

Virtualization and server companies are cooperating to standardize the format used to save virtual machine images to disk.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Aiming to smooth the way for a new generation of software key to making best use of multi-core processors, a handful of top computing companies have drafted an ad hoc standard for ...

Sun is adding support for the Open Virtualization Format standard to its VirtualBox software. Can it become the free or cheap solution that takes away market share from VMware Workstation?