Coming out of VMworld, I've run into many people who've been convinced that operating systems are becoming an endangered species and that shortly they'll be replaced by virtual machine software. I ...

As interesting as virtual client system and virtual server systems are, they're not the panacea that some in the industry present when speaking about their products. Why is it that when I speak to a ...

The embedded hypervisor software market offers key opportunities in system consolidation, safety-critical applications, and ...

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Beyond simplicity, a unified architecture improves performance. By reducing the number of "north-south" and "east-west" communications between modules, an Infrastructure OS reduces CPU and memory ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Kim Hartman, Vice President of Sales Can you mix real-time control and Microsoft Windows? The challenge is to preserve ...

The operating system has long played a critical role in embedded systems. A prime historical purpose of the operating system is to simplify the life of electronic product developers, freeing them to ...

Last week’s LinuxWorld Conference in Boston was the locus of several important announcements. Again, virtualization was front and center. In no particular order: * XenSource announced XenEnterprise.

Editor’s note: In this, the first of Peter H. Salus’s articles, he explains virtualization with an unusual metaphor, puts it in historical context, and suggests some often-overlooked benefits.

Operating system virtualization software Virtuozzo from SWsoft is growing fastest among all vendors -- 98 percent -- in the hot overall market for virtualization technology, according to industry ...

Virtualization software has long been the subject of criticism because of real or perceived security flaws. Over the years there have been numerous virtualization exploits identified and resolved, but ...