Processing virtualization is hardware and software technology that hides physical system configuration from operating system services, operating systems, or applications.

As you might imagine, this virtualization method is typically slower than the hypervisor-based approach, since there's much more software sitting between the guest OS and the actual hardware.

Gartner also believes that the new standard for client computing will be a virtual platform based on software, not hardware. PC virtualization has been used in niche applications for a number of ...

Virtualization, both on the software and hardware side, took center stage at the Linux/Open Source on Wall Street conference here April 23. In a panel discussion titled "Linux on the Leading Edge ...

Making the basic virtualization software a component of an operating system, available at no extra cost, exerts price pressure on VMware's core products.

Intel, which dropped the ball on PC virtualization, and AMD, which failed to pick it up, are now talking — sans details — about adding hardware virtualization support to future processors.

Daniel Kusnetzky, a reformed software engineer and product manager, founded Kusnetzky Group LLC in 2006. He's literally written the book on virtualization and often comments on cloud computing, ...

Software-defined networking (SDN) is a buzz-term these days. Indeed, IDC predicts the worldwide SDN market will reach $8 billion by 2018. SDN is a prime example of the larger industrial trend to ...

Most virtualization tools, including Virtual PC, will either run better on hardware with built-in virtualization support or won't run at all on computers that don't support hardware virtual ...

Microsoft has followed a rival in advocating virtualization as a way to try out software painlessly. Microsoft's Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format can be used to collect an operating system, higher ...

Enterprise computing has always consisted of three distinct parts--hardware, software and services. What's changed over the years is the value placed on each of them. From the early 1960s until ...