I recall teaching a college class in operating systems, when well into the class, thinking I was getting the points across, a few of the students stopped the class and asked “Yes, but what really is ...

Computer system virtualization was first introduced in mainframes during the 1960s and 1970s. Although virtualization remained a largely untapped facility during the 1980s and 1990s, computer ...

Gibbs concludes his review of the Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0, an OS virtualization system About seven Internet years ago (that’s roughly three weeks in the real world) I started discussing ...

Kevin Pedretti, lead researcher for Sandia National Laboratories’ virtual external operating system program, uses his laptop computer to inspect a virtual machine experiment running on Sandia’s Red ...

Intel and AMD dominate x86 enterprise servers because of their hardware-assisted virtual machine (HVM) support. VIA Technologies included HVM in its VIA Nano and its latest dual-core VIA Nano X2 (Fig ...

Real-time hypervisors — the central technology for workload consolidation — enable the safe execution of multiple workloads ...

Paul Zimmerman is on the information systems team at Ketchum Community Library in Sun Valley, Idaho. Regardless of an organization’s size, user base or area of responsibility, IT administrators know ...

Virtualization has become a fundamental technology in the world of computing, allowing organizations and individuals alike to maximize their hardware resources, improve efficiency, and enhance ...