I’ve been running Type 2 hypervisor apps for years, and whether it’s VMware Workstation, Virtual PC, or Parallels, each has proved vital in allowing me to test and run a wider array of applications ...

Desktop virtualization is hot -- ask any IT pundit. But it can also be confusing, because the market contains a variety of server- and client-based technologies for creating virtual desktops. Virtual ...

Modern science depends on high-performance computing to sift and analyze the sometimes mind-bogglingly large quantities of data generated by experiments, to accurately model complex systems, and to ...

Leading virtualization software vendors Citrix Systems and VMware are both running behind in plans to ship so-called bare-metal hypervisors for desktop PCs. Desktop virtualization: Microsoft, VMware ...

Parallels announces a bare-metal hypervisor, an update to its Virtuozzo Containers, and a new virtualization automation and management tool Going back as far as 2005, Parallels has been talking about ...

MontaVista, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cavium Networks, has released its MontaVista Carrier Grade Edition 6.0 (CGE 6), which is designed to deliver 99.99% availability out of the box. It includes a ...

AWS recently announced new bare metal instances for Amazon EC2. The new M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn instances are already available and can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth. The new bare metal ...

VMware promised a bare-metal hypervisor in 2009. Now VMware says it doesn’t need one. VMware is claiming it doesn’t need to deliver on its promise of a bare-metal desktop hypervisor, but says that if ...

OpenMetal, a leading provider of hosted private infrastructure, today announced that RamNode, a globally recognized public cloud provider, has successfully modernized its Netherlands data center ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...