Virtualization, hypervisors, and separation kernels have generated considerable buzz in both the enterprise and embedded marketplaces. In the embedded world, many of these technologies have been ...

Microsoft Thursday did something it rarely does. The company released a beta for a long-awaited technology — in this case its Windows Server 2008 virtualization technology Hyper-V — ahead of schedule.

During Microsoft's TechEd IT Forum conference in Barcelona, Spain, the company finally named its upcoming hypervisor virtualization platform. What was once code-named Viridian and then announced as ...

The coming fast growth of the desktop virtualization market has brought out multiple vendors, large and small, looking to gain a foothold and get their share as early as possible. Vendors of desktop ...

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Much like Paris Hilton, virtualization has become a headline in the news, yet very few SMB customers know what it does or exactly why it deserves attention. But that is changing as more solution ...

Maintaining employees' computers is one of the information technology department’s most thankless responsibilities. The desktop and laptop PCs that are fixtures of today’s workplace eat up IT staff ...

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 ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor With virtualization now a mainstream technology for most large businesses, the big players like EMC (VMWare), IBM and Microsoft are investing heavily in proprietary options for ...

Things are heating up in the hypervisor and virtualization software space with Microsoft’s release of the Hyper-V within Windows Server 2008 and adding VMware support to Microsoft System Center ...

Here's the basic question: where does the hypervisor--the software layer that underpins server virtualization--live and who owns it? Is it just part of the server or is it just part of the operating ...

Citrix Systems’ XenClient, its bare-metal hypervisor for desktop virtualization, is a work in progress and will primarily help IT professionals get comfortable with the product, according to company ...