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 ...

This article is excerpted from Beginning Ubuntu Server Administration: From Novice to Professional, by Sander van Vugt, and is reprinted by permission of APress. All ...

A virtual machine environment that enables guest operating systems to run as is without modifications. Contrast with paravirtualization. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

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 ...

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.

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With virtualization now a mainstream technology for most large businesses, the big players like EMC (VMWare), IBM and Microsoft are investing heavily in proprietary options for running multiple guest ...

Linux virtualization frenzy has a new challenger: the simplified virtualization technology, KVM, has made it into the standard kernel. Could it be a better approach to using the virtualization ...

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 ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor With virtualization now a mainstream technology for most large businesses, the big players like EMC (VMWare), IBM and Microsoft are investing heavily in proprietary options for ...