In a blog entry that I penned in late January, I wondered what Intel's forthcoming Vanderpool -- a hardware-based virtualization technology that will find its way into Intel's chips -- meant for ...

Virtualization — the use of multiple instances of operating systems, applications, or other software running on single hardware devices — comes in many different forms and flavors, but among the most ...

In his keynote speech at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, Simon Crosby, Chief Technology Officer for Citrix Systems, announced the company’s plan to open source Project Kensho, a set of tools that ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Groups led by developers at Citrix and Samsung are bringing Xen hypervisor to ARM Cortex A15, but a KVM project isn't far behind Several Xen developers who currently work for Citrix recently announced ...

I'm finding myself increasingly often in the situation of needing "scratch systems" to test things on, work with complex .deb packages, etc.<BR><BR>I'm wondering what general opinion on emulation ...

Bromium is a well funded startup that promises to tap some little-used inherent strengths of Xen virtualization to secure public clouds, opening up the possibility of greater cost savings for ...

The ThunderX family of processors from Cavium delivers integrated virtualization support for both compute and I/O centric workloads. The Xen optimization for the ARMv8 architecture has proven to be ...

But has virtualization kind of changed the way people need to think about how they provision applications? Wagner: Well, I think you could say in one breath, virtualization changes everything, and in ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Usually, when I write here about Microsoft, it's in a negative way, and the result is very intense debate. Today I come, not to bury Big Green, but to praise it. The benefit will only be on high-end ...

Things don’t always go smoothly when you try to mix the world of open source with the world of proprietary commercial software. Sometimes those worlds collide. All too often, proprietary vendors are ...