Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

It’s been a trend for some time now: enterprise buyers turning from Risc-based servers to increasingly powerful x86 systems as a way to cut costs and improve efficiencies. At first, it was a one ...

Thanks to the backward, “all software owns the entire system” design of the x86 CPU architecture, PC client and server virtualization is one of the most challenging tasks facing system software ...

Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant report for x86 server virtualization infrastructure shows that the two leading companies in the space -- VMware and Microsoft -- continue to outpace the competition, ...

Technology research firm IDC released a report Tuesday in which it revised an earlier forecast on customer spending in the x86 server market for the remainder of the decade. The company downgraded its ...

2005 was a training year for the x86 virtualization race just around the corner, or rather, the quarter. At present, virtualization is primarily associated with carving one physical computer into ...

When it comes to squeezing out the last bit of performance from hardware, some see virtualization as the answer to the call. And for the most part, it is the answer. Server hardware is notoriously ...

AMD , in collaboration with XenSource, announced that it will port Xen, the leading open-source virtualization package, to AMD64 technology. This industry-first x86-based 64-bit open-source ...

When Apple announced the Big Switch, some geeks reveled in thought of running several different operating systems natively on a single machine. Shorty after the first Intel Mac was released, efforts ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Apple yesterday announced plans to build future Macs with its own custom silicon chips, and to ease the transition away from Intel processors, Apple revived the "Rosetta" feature that allowed PowerPC ...

Mac users who rely on Windows virtualization software might be left in the lurch when Apple transitions to its own custom ARM processors later this year, as the company's Rosetta Intel-to-ARM ...