SWsoft, a provider of both operating system and hardware virtualization products, has an interesting whitepaper titled "Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology". This ...

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 ...

Note: The following column originally appeared in Amkai’s May newsletter.The English language has witnessed a major expansion as a result of the need for new terms related to technology. Interestingly ...

Virtualization and hypervisors offer a way out. By replacing physically separate platforms with virtual machines (VMs), ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft added the hypercall API for the Viridian hypervisor to the Open Specification Promise, a designation aimed at encouraging third party development which applies to a handful of ...

Virtualization appeals to IT executives looking to maximize data-center operations, but they must answer 10 difficult questions before they have a chance to successfully roll virtualization out, a ...

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 ...

A virtual machine is a computing resource that uses software instead of a physical computer to run programs and deploy applications. It operates by running one or more virtual “guest” machines on a ...

The contrast between virtualization in the data center, discussed in my previous No Jitter post, and virtualization in the WAN is interesting. We've had WAN virtualization, in the form of VLANs and ...

InfoWorld's Test Center staff has selected six virtualization products for InfoWorld's 2009 Technology of the Year Awards. And it looks like VMware is continuing a trend. My hat goes off to the ...

VPro has nothing to do with Virtualization. VPro is a client platform that enables hardware level remote administration and diagnostics that is independant of the OS.

VMware, which created x86 server virtualization and is the dominant player in the market, is absolutely on fire. When EMC bought the company in 2003, VMware revenues were around $100 million a year.