It is a widely held misconception that in order to fully make use of the performance available with multicore processors, virtualization in the form of a hypervisor must be used, along with a ...

What every IT generalist needs to know before deploying GPU workloads, and why the platform matters more than the hardware.

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 ...

Shortly after The Virtualization Procrastinators appeared in Computerworld last week I was contacted by Jim Ni, Microsoft’s group manager for server virtualization. He wanted to clarify a point in the ...

Symantec jumped into the virtualization game with both feet and put together a nice suite offering called Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite. The cornerstone technology in this suite comes from ...

Virtualization is an essential component for any IT outfit looking torun an efficient, manageable, waste-not-want-not shop. It’s not justa tool for large call centers with big server farms. Evensmall- ...

Virtualization, the process of abstracting physical hardware by creating multiple virtual machines (VMs) with independent operating systems and tasks, has been in computing since the 1960s. Now, with ...