Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

We've been watching the industry, as a whole, move from a focus on physical system performance, reliability, availability, cost, power consumption or some other attribute, to speaking about how ...

Generally speaking, there are three typical classes of virtual machine (VM) architecture -- the hypervisor, host-based virtualization and para-virtualization, which are differentiated by the position ...

Virtualization has made a lot of progress during the last decade, primarily due to the development of myriad open-source virtual machine hypervisors. This progress has almost eliminated the barriers ...

During the past few decades, CIOs have stood at the center of one of the great technological revolutions in history: the replacement of the physical atom by the computational bit as the medium of ...