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 ...

Oracle is preparing to roll out the latest member of its family of “engineered systems” that combine software and hardware, with the upcoming product focused on virtualization. The company will ...

Silly humans, we don’t like change, even when it’s beneficial and necessary because there’s a chance new inventions might not work as well as old practices. Or, some added e ...

*EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series about alternative desktop technologies for improving management and security of Windows and other desktop platforms. One Boston-based ISV is giving ...

System virtualization lets users throw off hardware and even rigid software, and gain the flexibility to automate, optimize, ...

Private cloud is well covered in System Center 2012, although the focus is poised more towards Windows Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud platform. Virtualization is also heavily covered, and although ...

Modern digital tools allow doctors to access patients’ medical records quickly while making rounds, greatly increasing the amount of diagnostic information available and the accuracy of their notes ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding an advanced, more powerful 128-bit ZFS file system, new virtualization technologies and the Postgres open-source database to its Solaris 10 Unix operating system, as ...

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, ...

Virtualization, as the name suggests, involves the creation of a make-believe version of a computer or its constituent resource, like a storage device, server, etc., within a physical computer. The ...

The motivations for system virtualization technology in the data center are well known, including resource optimization and improved service availability. This article provides an overview of the ...