In the post Why do organizations adopt virtualization technology?, I tried to present some of the goals organizations have discussed for why they embarked on the journey to a virtualized environment ...

NEW YORK (InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum) – Sept. 25, 2006 – Novell today announced the industry’s first enterprise Linux-based virtualization solution built on Xen, optimized for Intel ...

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 ...

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 ...

He said Microsoft's virtualization technology, known as HyperVisor, does not yet have a release date, but that it should roughly coincide with the rollout of the Longhorn operating system. "We have to ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

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 ...

Ed Harnish, vice president of marketing at Acronis, a Burlington, Mass.-based storage management vendor, offered 10 tips for deploying virtualization software before hundreds of IT pros and solution ...

When Roland Etcheverry joined chemical company Champion Technologies Inc. two years ago, he looked around and realized he needed to remake the company’s storage environment. He had done this twice ...

As virtualization software continues to evolve, so do the options for network specialists, IT managers, CTOs, and CIOs. In order to help make the best decision for your organization, it’s important to ...

Start-up Meiosys last week announced virtualization technology that lets enterprise companies freeze applications and move them to another server. MetaCluster UC 3.0 runs between the operating system ...

I created a VM a while ago for testing things in a safe sandbox. It's nothing fancy, just a Win10 installation in VirtualBox. I fired it up the other day for the first time since I upgraded my system, ...