My colleague Paula Rooney just posted Oracle: Our full virtualization stack beats VMware. I thought I'd add comments coming from another viewpoint to the discussion. Regardless of the truth of ...

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 ...

Virtualization technologies create efficiencies by viewing disparate physical systems as singular assets. But by putting all your management eggs in one virtual basket, you run the risk of ...

NIST explained that full virtualization provides a complete simulation of underlying computer hardware, enabling software to run without any modification. For cloud computing systems, full ...

Guide to Security for Full Virtualization Technologies The spread of virtualization technologies has a wide range of benefits, from improved hardware efficiency to more standardized client support.

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 ...

While doing my morning expedition through the wilds of news sites, blogs and, of course, comic strip sites, I came across something by Laura McCabe, a partner at Hurwitz and Associates, titled "What ...

It is a widely held misconception that in order to fully make use of the performance available with multicore processors, virtualization in the form of a hypervisor must be used, along with a ...

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 running multiple guest ...