We've been watching the industry, as a whole, move from a focus on physical system performance, reliability, availability, cost, power consumption or some other attribute, to speaking about how ...

When it comes to software-defined networking, many people are guilty of missing the forest for the trees. Software-defined networking (SDN) is a buzz-term these days. Indeed, IDC predicts the ...

Real-time hypervisors — the central technology for workload consolidation — enable the safe execution of multiple workloads ...

Specifying and validating embedded systems and chips becomes increasingly challenging as feature sets and non-functional constraints grow. It's especially difficult when the system involves a ...

Virtualization companies, unwilling to see core products become a mere operating system feature, are signing deals to build them into hardware. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Technology innovations are continuously impact the Internet, applications, and services. Internet traffic is rapidly expanding and becoming more varied and complex, with an explosion in voice and ...

Electronic systems are becoming more complex across multiple markets including automotive, industrial control and healthcare. Vehicles are beginning to drive themselves, industrial robots are becoming ...

Virtualization is a very useful tool that allows system resources to be utilized in new ways. Unfortunately, many people mistakenly equate virtual machine technology, technology that can encapsulate ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

Using virtualization we remove the ties that bind us (to specific hardware). Imagine if you can, that the operating system and its applications are not bound to the hardware. Instead there is a basic ...

Virtualization is one of those technology buzzwords you’ve probably heard before without understanding what it is, how it works, or why it’s important. In a general sense, virtualization is a strategy ...

Emulation is what we do when we try to make one system behave like or imitate a different system. We want to take System A (something we already have) and give it the inputs we would normally use for ...