Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

We've been watching the industry, as a whole, move from a focus on physical system performance, reliability, availability, cost, power consumption or some other attribute, to speaking about how ...

Generally speaking, there are three typical classes of virtual machine (VM) architecture -- the hypervisor, host-based virtualization and para-virtualization, which are differentiated by the position ...

The rising market share of electric vehicles and the reduction in combustion engines required in the future is transforming the automotive industry. One could think this would lead to a simplification ...

In recent years, hardware virtualization has become commonplace in the computing industry and more available to end users. The idea behind it is a noble one. Why invest in allocating more server ...

During the past few decades, CIOs have stood at the center of one of the great technological revolutions in history: the replacement of the physical atom by the computational bit as the medium of ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

Comparison of security postures for containers and different types of hypervisors. Key measures of software security. Security certifications for virtualization solutions. How to improve the security ...