With virtualization, the network, storage and compute resources are abstracted, so applications, services and functions are less dependent on the physical hardware. IT administrators can provide ...

Hardware virtualization, which is also known as server virtualization or simply virtualization, is the abstraction of computing resources from the software that uses those resources. In a traditional ...

Intel and AMD dominate x86 enterprise servers because of their hardware-assisted virtual machine (HVM) support. VIA Technologies included HVM in its VIA Nano and its latest dual-core VIA Nano X2 (Fig ...

Virtualization has brought a dramatic level of growth and advancement to technology and business over the years. It transforms physical infrastructure into dedicated, partitioned virtual machines (VM) ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor With virtualization now a mainstream technology for most large businesses, the big players like EMC (VMWare), IBM and Microsoft are investing heavily in proprietary options for ...

Virtualization has long been used to wring efficiency out of over-sized, under-used systems, but isolating applications and operating systems from the underlying hardware also produces immense ...

Intel contributed the Scalable I/O Virtualization (SIOV) specification to the Open Compute Project (OCP) with Microsoft, enabling device and platform manufacturers to access an industry-standard ...

The widespread Windows 7 RC release has meant many users attention turned to the OS' recently-announced Windows XP Mode, only to discover what Microsoft had warned from the start: many processors ...

Intel is expected to declare Tuesday that its Virtualization Technology (VT) is mature enough for testing and about three months away from prime time. But AMD, whose rival “Pacifica” technology won’t ...