Bob Weiderhold, CEO of Transitive, and I fought off intermittent telephone problems to discuss a technology that is often overlooked when analysts put together their taxonomy of virtual processing ...

Circuits in the CPU and controller chips that enhance the running of multiple operating systems (multiple virtual machines). They deal with functions such as saving and restoring the CPU state upon ...

Virtualization is the backbone of modern cloud computing, enabling multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical ...

One possible use of virtualization technology is as a hardware-abstraction-layer to hide the differences between servers in a data center. Even if you buy servers in batches of hundreds of thousands, ...

What every IT generalist needs to know before deploying GPU workloads, and why the platform matters more than the hardware.

Virtualization companies, unwilling to see core products become a mere operating system feature, are signing deals to build them into hardware. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

In one fell swoop, John Whaley might end IT client hardware maintenance. And he might kill off the Geek Squad, too. Whaley, the chief technical officer of desktop virtualization company MokaFive, says ...

A new technical paper titled “CVA6 RISC-V Virtualization: Architecture, Microarchitecture, and Design Space Exploration” was published (preprint) by researchers at Universidade do Minho, University of ...

Home labs are evolving from hobbyist setups into powerful, reliable environments for learning, hosting, and experimentation. Whether you’re repurposing old gaming PCs, investing in ECC RAM for ...

An idea being floated around at the office is to create a server lab for virtualization, to experiment with various hypervisors (Xen, ESX, HyperV, SunxVM). I've been doing some work on virtualization, ...