This is the first installment in a three-part series on desktop virtualization. Part II will focus on planning, design, and building a business case, while Part III will examine the TCO and ROI. When ...

SWsoft, a provider of both operating system and hardware virtualization products, has an interesting whitepaper titled "Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology". This ...

I presented virtualization technology as an approach to create an artificial environment that is supported by the ever-increasing performance of processors, memory, storage, networks and the like ...

AMD made real its virtualization technology as the chip maker unveiled its “Pacifica” specification, a computer processor design aimed at enhancing virtualization with 64-bit servers and other clients ...

This is the final installment in a three-part series on desktop virtualization. Part I looked at the potential benefits of desktop virtualization, while Part II focused on planning, design, and ...

One of the fastest-growing areas of computing, virtualization provides a big payback that until recently was restricted only to big companies. Over the past year, though, small companies have rapidly ...

Fewer and fewer IT organizations are asking whether they should virtualize systems. The focus is now on how should they leverage virtualization in their environment. The maturation of virtualization ...

To help meet the demands of increasingly complex business software, Intel introduced its "VT-x" virtualization technology, letting you run multiple operating systems on a single microprocessor chip.

In recent years, broadcasters have been increasingly lured towards cloud playout solutions, giving them a simpler and more affordable way to manage live channels, while enabling scalability for being ...

No matter the size of your business, having an IT infrastructure that includes cost-effective disaster recovery and business continuity preparedness solutions is a necessity in today's economic ...

A few years ago, I wrote a speculative piece about how off-the-shelf x86 desktop virtualization technology such as VMware, Parallels and Oracle VirtualBox could be used as a means to defend PCs ...

The new platform lets mobile phone users work with multiple virtual phones at the same time, said Srinivas Krishnamurti, VMware's director of product development management and market development. The ...