Software applications in business fit into three categories. The first category contains applications that work but are not core to the business. The second category contains application that more or ...

Kevin Pedretti, lead researcher for Sandia National Laboratories’ virtual external operating system program, uses his laptop computer to inspect a virtual machine experiment running on Sandia’s Red ...

Last week’s LinuxWorld Conference in Boston was the locus of several important announcements. Again, virtualization was front and center. In no particular order: * XenSource announced XenEnterprise.

A virtual machine (VM) is an operating system that’s emulated within another operating system. You could run Windows within a MacBook as a virtual machine, or even Windows within Windows. Because of ...

It's the double edge of virtualization: Hardware and software efficiency comes at the system administrator's expense. But IT departments are getting better at managing it all, thanks in part to some ...

Anyone who frequently installs and uninstalls new software, tests beta versions of programs, or tinkers with the registry in Windows, often reaches the point where they have to completely re-install ...

"Intel servers are the most under-utilized asset in a company," says Michael Mullany, senior director of product management at VMware. "CPU speeds have gone into the stratosphere but software ...

An operating system is the essential software that's needed to run your computer's suite of software. Everything from video ...

Virtualization technology, whereby multiple operating systems can be run on shared hardware, is extremely well understood if somewhat inefficient in its use of resources. Just a few decades ago, ...

In an ideal world, disaster recovery strategies would include backup equipment ranging from a single server to an entire dark data center. In the real world, you can’t afford to set up an entire extra ...

They let you test new software without setting your OS on fire ...