Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

The success of VMs in server virtualization led to applying virtualization to other areas including storage, networking, and desktops. Chances are if there’s a type of hardware that’s being used in ...

Many businesses have moved to the Windows 7 operating system, but some older business applications still require Windows XP to run. Businesses with legitimate copies ...

With so much progress made virtualizing servers, many observers say it’s time to turn our attention to the desktop. But is it better to use client-side or server-side hypervisors? Hypervisors have, at ...

(1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions (separate "virtual machines") within a single server. Widely used in enterprise and cloud computing datacenters, each virtual machine (VM) ...