Virtualization has been a major factor in the enterprise space for years; several virtualization providers have become billion-dollar companies. More recently, virtualization has started to become a ...

Microsoft on Thursday fired a shot across the bow of competitors in the virtualization market by releasing a public beta for Hyper-V, its widely awaited virtualization hypervisor that will be part of ...

iCore Software brings OS virtualization to the home client PC and to Windows XP -- making it the first to offer container-based virtualization for the Windows desktop Virtualization has become one of ...

Citing performance and security benefits, virtualization vendors are shoving more add-on software into the hypervisor layer. VMware Inc., Citrix Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. all allow for ...

Speculation is rampant that Mach, which is a component of the OS X kernel, will be axed from OS X 10.5 (Leopard). If you read Cringely’s treatise on monolithic kernels you’ll get the gist of the ...

Ransomware groups are targeting hypervisors to maximize impact, allowing a single breach to encrypt dozens of virtual ...

Server virtualization has been around a long time, has come to different classes of machines and architectures over the decades to drive efficiency increases, and has seemingly reached a level of ...

VMware made a long-anticipated move July 22 when it announced that its ESXi hypervisor would be free. That doesn’t mean VMware customers can avoid pricey fees for support and management tools, though.

The Padded Cell Secure Hypervisor allows compartmentalization and virtualization of guest operating systems, and its EAL6+ compliant security policies aid resolution of serious security problems with ...

In a Wednesday keynote speech at Oracle Openworld, Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO of Sun Microsystems, took the wraps off xVM, a virtualization and management platform that consists of Sun xVM ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...