I kind of like IBM's clever marketing idea. An ad click parlayed off the theme of defining server virtualization takes you to a special-purpose Web site, sponsored by both IBM and Intel. The site is a ...

Virtualization and cloud computing are terms being thrown around every day in all levels of government. But do government agencies really know the difference between the two? Apparently not. A new ...

Over at the new ScaleMP Blog, CEO Shai Fultheim writes that, as the definition of a “supercomputer” continues to evolve, virtualization is the key to making HPC accessible in the real world. In my ...

(1) The term may erroneously refer to traditional virtualization methods rather than the technique described below (see virtual machine). (2) A method for splitting a server into multiple partitions ...

Circuits in the CPU and controller chips that enhance the running of multiple operating systems (multiple virtual machines). They deal with functions such as saving and restoring the CPU state upon ...

What is virtualization anyway? This five-part series on a trend that is reaching into every corner of the technology landscape addresses that fundamental question, along with many of the complex ...

Virtualization – as well as the cloud computing model within which it often runs – answer much of that need, by giving CIOs the ability to cover a week-long spike in demand by turning up the spigot on ...

How much of an organization’s IT capabilities – including processors, storage and network – can be virtualized and moved into the cloud? Quite a bit, according to Craig Mathias, principal at advisory ...

Application virtualization is one of those technologies that has been around for a little while now, but it just doesn't seem to get the same attention as its older sibling -- server virtualization.

Some of you may have seen me tweeting recently about a little experiment that I have going on where I'm using a small PC (perhaps we can call it a netbook, but that's a semantics issue) — the Nokia ...

The fires of hot topics are usually stoked with hype, but in the case of storage virtualization, the topic actually exceeds the hype. Let me explain why. It's not surprising that many vendors are ...