This Week in Virtualization: Feb. 26, 2010

New VMware vSphere features will include enhancements to VMotion and Distributed Resource Scheduler, as well as a new technology called Transparent Memory Compression.

Microsoft has released new Hyper-V Linux Integration Components designed to make Red Hat Enterprise Linux run better on Hyper-V.

Experts debate whether VirtualBox has a future in the enterprise now that it's owned by Oracle.

Citrix Systems certifies Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as the "perfect guest" for XenServer.

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