Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

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We're starting to see more and more system designs that clearly have as a target virtualized workloads. Dell's the latest example. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although the opinions ...

Thanks to the backward, “all software owns the entire system” design of the x86 CPU architecture, PC client and server virtualization is one of the most challenging tasks facing system software ...

As IT managers virtualize their x86 servers and consolidate applications on a smaller number of systems, they’re demanding more from the hardware they buy: more memory, certainly, but also added ...

2005 was a training year for the x86 virtualization race just around the corner, or rather, the quarter. At present, virtualization is primarily associated with carving one physical computer into ...

IBM demonstrated virtualization capabilities on its servers and storage at its recent analyst conference. Though IBM has several different virtualization capabilities in its arsenal, in this article I ...