Micron Technology, Inc. today announced that Egenera Inc., a global leader in Infrastructure Virtualization solutions, has designed Micron’s line of energy-efficient Aspen Memory products into its Egenera® BladeFrame® platforms to reduce data center power consumption. Egenera is experiencing up to a 17 percent reduction in server memory power consumption by utilizing Micron’s 1 Gb-based 1.5-volt DDR2 Aspen Memory modules in its platforms.

One of the industry’s most scalable virtualization servers is now available from Dell and based on the Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced. Enterprise customers interested in consolidating server infrastructure may turn to two new virtualization servers from Dell utilizing Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, including the Dell PowerEdge R905 which set a new standard in VMmark performance testing with 60 virtual machines.

New Microsoft System Center solutions for management of multivendor virtualization, operating systems and applications available for customer evaluation.

Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the availability of a new analysis toolset to help IBM and its business partners identify opportunities for small businesses to consolidate and virtualize infrastructure resources to improve IT economics.

Two LinuxWorld speakers in San Francisco have made back to back predictions that Linux will play an increasingly commanding role in the rapid growth field of server virtualization, but it's not immediately clear why that should be so.