Hypervisors often get overlooked as a technology in favor of the flashier concept of virtualization, but you can’t get to the fun of virtualization until you understand what a hypervisor does within a ...

In the previous installment of the Virtualization Guide, I talked in general ways about the exculsive hardware access privileges that the OS reserves for itself. Now it's time to nuance that picture a ...

“We want to drive customers to be 100 percent virtualized,” he told attendees at the company’s partner conference this week in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.VDC-OS remains the fabric that will tie together ...

The annual VMworld user conference gets underway today in Las Vegas, with the event's host betting big on a new strategy that redefines its market-leading virtualization management products. VMware is ...

Recently I wrote a detailed article on using VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop on the Mac. These two programs are virtualization solutions—they allow one “host” operating system (Mac OS X) to run ...

Let me see if I've got this right: Systems virtualization as most people practice it consists of booting multiple copies of a guest OS into memory and switching between copies as needed. The boot and ...

Many of the midsize companies who have already implemented virtual server environments are already looking beyond the consolidation benefits to find ways to control IT costs and add value to their ...

Microsoft has begun taking the wraps off its hush-hush "Drawbridge" application-virtualization project. "="" is="" a="" microsoft="" research="" project"=""> developed by some of the same folks who ...

In 2003, Intel announced that it was working on a technology called "Vanderpool" that was aimed at providing hardware-level support for something called "virtualization." With that announcement, the ...

VMware's expected vSphere announcement on Tuesday will include some rebranding and clarification of the VDC-OS, VMware's vision of a data center operating system, while retaining focus on an ...