Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

X86 virtualization is often a risky proposition for highly regulated, mission-critical applications, because people and processes are not ready for virtualization and the security risks it introduces, ...

It’s been a trend for some time now: enterprise buyers turning from Risc-based servers to increasingly powerful x86 systems as a way to cut costs and improve efficiencies. At first, it was a one ...

In a new blog post, Adam Jollans, program director, Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy, IBM, comments on a new Gabriel Consulting white paper: As we approach VMware’s annual VMworld 2012 ...

It's easy to find an anecdote about a company ditching a big server and buying lots of small servers. Or one about a company replacing lots of little servers with one big one. Call a vendor, and it ...

Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant report for x86 server virtualization infrastructure shows that the two leading companies in the space -- VMware and Microsoft -- continue to outpace the competition, ...

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 ...

In the previous installment of the Virtualization Guide, I talked in general ways about the exculsive hardware access privileges that the OS reserves for itself. Now it's time to nuance that picture a ...

Technology research firm IDC released a report Tuesday in which it revised an earlier forecast on customer spending in the x86 server market for the remainder of the decade. The company downgraded its ...

When it comes to squeezing out the last bit of performance from hardware, some see virtualization as the answer to the call. And for the most part, it is the answer. Server hardware is notoriously ...

When Apple announced the Big Switch, some geeks reveled in thought of running several different operating systems natively on a single machine. Shorty after the first Intel Mac was released, efforts ...