Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.

No VM, no setup hassle, no leftover clutter afterward.

Parallels, a leading global provider in virtualization and end-user computing (EUC) solutions, today announced a significant update to Parallels RAS (Remote Application Server), introducing a new ...

Windows Sandbox isn't just for malware testing ...

A new PowerShell-based Hyper-V health tool goes beyond replication status to estimate whether a VM is actually ready for a successful failover.

You try to create a quiesced snapshot of your Windows 11 virtual machine, but the operation fails because the VMware Snapshot Provider service is completely absent from the services list. This ...

New Azure VM series is designed to support memory-intensive SAP applications with improved performance and scalability.

Tom Fenton explains how local AI fits into the broader private AI discussion for VMware environments, distinguishing enterprise-scale private AI deployments from smaller local AI setups running on ...

You can wrap an executable file around a PowerShell script (PS1) so that you can distribute the script as an .exe file rather than distributing a “raw” script file. This eliminates the need to explain ...

We installed WSL Containers on Windows 11, built a custom container from scratch, tested it, and checked what still needs ...

Windows 11 provides a rich GUI, but it also supports various command line interfaces (CLIs) through a modern Terminal app.

Microsoft's WSL team has confirmed WSL 3 doesn't exist. It was mistaken for WSL Containers, which is arriving in few days as ...