Desktops are diversifying. Long after we all collectively moved off of the traditional desk desktop (i.e the mostly wooden one, where you might still keep your coffee, spectacles and pens these days), ...

Hypervisor technology has been one of the building blocks of cloud computing from the start. In recent years, though, this method of “virtualization” to separate a computer’s operating system and ...

AppZero, formally Trigence, demonstrated a different approach to allowing organizations to take advantage of the computing resources made available by hosting suppliers at Demo 09. Rather than taking ...

(1) A synonym for a language interpreter. See interpreter, Java Virtual Machine and Python. (2) Software that enables a different operating system and applications to run in a computer along with the ...

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Cloud computing has revolutionised the delivery of scalable and cost‐effective computational resources, yet this paradigm also introduces unique security challenges. Central to these challenges is the ...

Desktop as a Service provider Shells offers a new component to virtual cloud computing. It brings Linux distros and Windows 10 to any computer, mobile device, and some game consoles, via any Web ...

Microsoft Corp. today added two sets of virtual machines to its Azure public cloud that are designed to facilitate confidential computing, an increasingly popular approach to improving the security of ...

Why it matters: As we noted last week when Microsoft officially became the world's third most valuable company, Microsoft's recent growth is likely a result of their increased emphasis on non-windows ...

American researchers from Columbia University have presented a new computing technology, that allows several people to run programs on a quantum computer simultaneously. The system, called HyperQ, is ...

The recently released Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report states that cyber-criminals are compromising virtual machines in the cloud as a way to vastly increase the scale of Distributed ...