If you play the "first thing that comes to mind" game, and someone asks you to name a virtualization platform, more often than not, someone will yell out VMware or specifically VMware ESX Server. But ...

Virtualization is something that has been around for quite a long time. It has been a staple of the mainframe world for well over 30 years. It has been part of the midrange systems world for over 20 ...

With the Microsoft and Linux camps starting to get their acts together on server virtualization, we decided to check in with VMware, the company that popularized the concept, to see what gains it is ...

Microsoft has followed a rival in advocating virtualization as a way to try out software painlessly. Microsoft's Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format can be used to collect an operating system, higher-level ...

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 ...

Version 3.1 of Sun's VirtualBox hosted virtualization software gains new features such as Teleportation, snapshots, and 2D acceleration Sun is continuing to push its virtualization agenda forward.

The automotive industry is undergoing a profound transformation. Vehicles are no longer just mechanical machines, they are becoming sophisticated, software-defined platforms packed with electronics ...

Ed Harnish, vice president of marketing at Acronis, a Burlington, Mass.-based storage management vendor, offered 10 tips for deploying virtualization software before hundreds of IT pros and solution ...

Virtualization in cloud computing can reduce the resources and costs involved in running operating systems, making it easier to test applications in multiple environments. As more organizations adopt ...