Virtualization is something that has been around for quite a long time. It has been a staple of the mainframe world for well over 30 years. It has been part of the midrange systems world for over 20 ...

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 ...

VMware has released new versions of its desktop virtualization products for the Mac and PC that bring support for Windows 10 and an enhanced graphics engine. The company’s Fusion line of software that ...

Suddenly, everyone's jumping on the virtualization bandwagon. VMware led the way seven years ago, but the sector has heated up in the past year, as other tech services companies see dollar signs from ...

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 ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Virtual software appliances are applications — mostly server ones, at this point — that come to users prepackaged with a thin operating system layer. Essentially virtual machines (VM) created by ...

Virtualization’s big push to fame was arguably kick-started by VMware’s Workstation product, which allowed individual users to run a bunch of OSes, versions or instances (similar to multiple ...

Dublin, Oct. 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Virtualization Software Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2023-2028" report has been added to ...

The retailer rolls out Microsoft's Hyper-v technology to 1,700 stores, giving the software giant's cloud computing a boost. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works from Seattle and focuses on ...

What is a virtual machine? A virtual machine (VM) is software that runs programs or applications without being tied to a physical machine. In a VM instance, one or more guest machines can run on a ...