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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...