This is the first installment in a three-part series on desktop virtualization. Part II will focus on planning, design, and building a business case, while Part III will examine the TCO and ROI. When ...

I presented virtualization technology as an approach to create an artificial environment that is supported by the ever-increasing performance of processors, memory, storage, networks and the like ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the final installment in a three-part series on desktop virtualization. Part I looked at the potential benefits of desktop virtualization, while Part II focused on planning, design, and ...

A few years ago, I wrote a speculative piece about how off-the-shelf x86 desktop virtualization technology such as VMware, Parallels and Oracle VirtualBox could be used as a means to defend PCs ...

Many of the midsize companies who have already implemented virtual server environments are already looking beyond the consolidation benefits to find ways to control IT costs and add value to their ...

To help meet the demands of increasingly complex business software, Intel introduced its "VT-x" virtualization technology, letting you run multiple operating systems on a single microprocessor chip.

One of the fastest-growing areas of computing, virtualization provides a big payback that until recently was restricted only to big companies. Over the past year, though, small companies have rapidly ...

IT in the enterprise is as much about technology as it is about people, processes, and business needs. In a five-part series, we will cover some of the challenges faced when trying to design and ...

The new platform lets mobile phone users work with multiple virtual phones at the same time, said Srinivas Krishnamurti, VMware's director of product development management and market development. The ...

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, ...