Virtualization is a key enabling technology for the modern datacenter. Without virtualization, tricks like load balancing and multitenancy wouldn't be available from datacenters that use commodity x86 ...

We can rent as much or as little compute capacity or storage or connectivity as we want, and we can get it when we want it. And we don’t have to maintain or account for any of that hardware. What a ...

CPU Virtualization is a hardware feature found in all current AMD & Intel CPUs that allows a single processor to act as if it was multiple individual CPUs. This allows an operating system to more ...

Thanks to the backward, “all software owns the entire system” design of the x86 CPU architecture, PC client and server virtualization is one of the most challenging tasks facing system software ...

Just when you thought it was safe to understand virtualization, along comes micro-virtualization. Actually it’s not hard to understand at all and what it could do for Microsoft Windows (other ...

With the recent announcement of the XP Mode for Windows 7 hitting the release candidate stage people are eager to check this out to see what, if any, advantage it will have. But all is not good for ...

Intel’s eighth-gen chips and up enable optimal performance for virtualization-based security, which is automatically turned on in Windows 11, Microsoft’s director of OS and enterprise security, David ...