In the post Why do organizations adopt virtualization technology?, I tried to present some of the goals organizations have discussed for why they embarked on the journey to a virtualized environment ...

SWsoft, a provider of both operating system and hardware virtualization products, has an interesting whitepaper titled "Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology". This ...

InfoWorld's Test Center staff has selected six virtualization products for InfoWorld's 2009 Technology of the Year Awards. And it looks like VMware is continuing a trend. My hat goes off to the ...

Maintaining employees' computers is one of the information technology department’s most thankless responsibilities. The desktop and laptop PCs that are fixtures of today’s workplace eat up IT staff ...

According to VMware’s website, virtualization is an abstraction layer that decouples the physical hardware from the operating system to deliver greater IT resource utilization and flexibility.

Fewer and fewer IT organizations are asking whether they should virtualize systems. The focus is now on how should they leverage virtualization in their environment. The maturation of virtualization ...

He said Microsoft's virtualization technology, known as HyperVisor, does not yet have a release date, but that it should roughly coincide with the rollout of the Longhorn operating system. "We have to ...

Desktop virtualization is an alternative PC delivery model in which applications, operating systems, user data, profiles, and/or entire end-user environments are encapsulated and delivered to or ...

In recent years, broadcasters have been increasingly lured towards cloud playout solutions, giving them a simpler and more affordable way to manage live channels, while enabling scalability for being ...

Intel Corp. will bring its Vanderpool virtualization technology to desktop PC processors several months sooner than originally planned, the company announced yesterday. Vanderpool Technology, or VT, ...