Software applications in business fit into three categories. The first category contains applications that work but are not core to the business. The second category contains application that more or ...

A powerful Windows-native virtualization stack that trades polish for control and flexibility ...

Anyone who frequently installs and uninstalls new software, tests beta versions of programs, or tinkers with the registry in Windows, often reaches the point where they have to completely re-install ...

Virtual machines, simulated PCs with their own operating systems running within another computer’s software, are super freakin’ cool. (That’s a technical term, I’m a professional technology writer.) ...

The Interactive Virtual OS Museum features 1,700+ installs, 570 OS across 250+ platforms spanning 1948 to now. These are emulated, usable operating systems and include Commodore BASIC, Windows 3/95, ...

Last week’s LinuxWorld Conference in Boston was the locus of several important announcements. Again, virtualization was front and center. In no particular order: * XenSource announced XenEnterprise.

Kevin Pedretti, lead researcher for Sandia National Laboratories’ virtual external operating system program, uses his laptop computer to inspect a virtual machine experiment running on Sandia’s Red ...

In an ideal world, disaster recovery strategies would include backup equipment ranging from a single server to an entire dark data center. In the real world, you can’t afford to set up an entire extra ...