I recall teaching a college class in operating systems, when well into the class, thinking I was getting the points across, a few of the students stopped the class and asked “Yes, but what really is ...

The increased use of software virtualization in embedded systems is enabling additional use of open-source operating systems (OSes) and applications. The notion of providing a virtualized interface to ...

Virtualization, hypervisors, and separation kernels have generated considerable buzz in both the enterprise and embedded marketplaces. In the embedded world, many of these technologies have been ...

Real-time hypervisors — the central technology for workload consolidation — enable the safe execution of multiple workloads ...

As agencies begin to reap the consolidation benefits of virtualizing their server environments, a new wave of capabilities available now or soon to be released can enhance and manage virtualization ...

Shortly after The Virtualization Procrastinators appeared in Computerworld last week I was contacted by Jim Ni, Microsoft’s group manager for server virtualization. He wanted to clarify a point in the ...

Like original offerings from market pioneer VMware and others, Microsoft's current server virtualisation product, Virtual Server 2005, is a hosted solution, designed to run as an application on top of ...

NUREMBURG, Germany Lynuxworks Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has provided some details on version 2.0 of its LynxSecure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor. A hypervisor is a system of virtual machines ...