In a blog entry that I penned in late January, I wondered what Intel's forthcoming Vanderpool -- a hardware-based virtualization technology that will find its way into Intel's chips -- meant for ...

But has virtualization kind of changed the way people need to think about how they provision applications? Wagner: Well, I think you could say in one breath, virtualization changes everything, and in ...

Virtualization — the use of multiple instances of operating systems, applications, or other software running on single hardware devices — comes in many different forms and flavors, but among the most ...

In his keynote speech at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, Simon Crosby, Chief Technology Officer for Citrix Systems, announced the company’s plan to open source Project Kensho, a set of tools that ...

Groups led by developers at Citrix and Samsung are bringing Xen hypervisor to ARM Cortex A15, but a KVM project isn't far behind Several Xen developers who currently work for Citrix recently announced ...

Bromium is a well funded startup that promises to tap some little-used inherent strengths of Xen virtualization to secure public clouds, opening up the possibility of greater cost savings for ...

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I'm finding myself increasingly often in the situation of needing "scratch systems" to test things on, work with complex .deb packages, etc.<BR><BR>I'm wondering what general opinion on emulation ...

You may have heard that Citrix, in what can only be described as an exceptionally bold move -- and risky, calculated gamble, all at the same time -- is now giving ...

XenAccess, a Georgia Tech-hatched project that aims to bring VMsafe-esque capabilities to the Xen project, may provide a way to give Xen great security at the hypervisor level. Matt Asay is a veteran ...

Usually, when I write here about Microsoft, it's in a negative way, and the result is very intense debate. Today I come, not to bury Big Green, but to praise it. The benefit will only be on high-end ...

Things don’t always go smoothly when you try to mix the world of open source with the world of proprietary commercial software. Sometimes those worlds collide. All too often, proprietary vendors are ...