Virtualization has made a lot of progress during the last decade, primarily due to the development of myriad open-source virtual machine hypervisors. This progress has almost eliminated the barriers ...

Christophe Grujon and Chris Main highlight the various forms of virtualization. The virtualization of computing environments is not a new concept. Back in the 1960s, IBM experimented with ...

What is virtualization anyway? This five-part series on a trend that is reaching into every corner of the technology landscape addresses that fundamental question, along with many of the complex ...

Many embedded system designers are considering adopting virtualization technology in their applications, and for good reason. Benefits such as hardware cost savings, isolation and footprint reduction ...

The concept of virtualization originated on the IBM mainframes of the late 1960s, where a single computer could execute multiple different guest operating systems at the same time. The virtualization ...

Virtualization is a key enabling technology for the modern datacenter. Without virtualization, tricks like load balancing and multitenancy wouldn't be available from datacenters that use commodity x86 ...

Professors Wang and Luo and their group in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Peking University (PKU), have recently introduced a new memory virtualization technique called Dynamic ...

A primer on the varieties of virtualization. The first variety — sometimes referred to as native virtualization — occurs when a hypervisor (also called a microkernel) directly virtualizes all host ...

Although VMware continues to hold the majority share of the commercial virtualization market, other virtualization technologies are increasingly significant, though not necessarily as high profile.

Microsoft released significant details at WinHEC to hardware developers from all over the world about Microsoft's upcoming virtualization architecture. Microsoft's Windows Hypervisor will be a very ...

Xen is open-source royalty. This hypervisor, which runs and manages virtual machines (VMs), powers some of the largest clouds. You know their names: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Tencent, Alibaba Cloud, ...