Computer system virtualization was first introduced in mainframes during the 1960s and 1970s. Although virtualization remained a largely untapped facility during the 1980s and 1990s, computer ...

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 ...

Virtualization helps overcome the limitations of traditional test systems. By consolidating multiple PCs into a single solution, the system becomes more compact, cost-efficient, and yet powerful.

Qumranet, the commercial sponsor of the KVM virtualization software, has begun beta-testing a desktop virtualization system aimed at geographically distributed organizations. The company’s existing ...

I've got a vSphere cluster setup with vCenter as a VM running on the cluster. From what I've read, if I lose the p-host running the vCenter VM, I also lose vMotion, vMotion Storage, DRS, etc until ...

A distributed system is comprised of multiple computing devices interconnected with one another via a loosely-connected network. Almost all computing systems and applications today are distributed in ...

The tide is changing for analytics architectures. Traditional approaches, from the data warehouse to the data lake, implicitly assume that all relevant data can be stored in a single, centralized ...