I came away from InfoWorld’s Virtualization Executive Forum last week with two conclusions. First, server virtualization is definitely a big deal. This time last year, customers and ISVs still seemed ...

As the virtualization of U.S. defense agencies commences, the technology’s many attributes – and drawbacks -- are becoming apparent. Virtualization has enabled users to pack more computing power in a ...

Parallels Inc. today released a new version of its Windows/Linux desktop virtualization software, saying it should be able to run some applications as much as eight times faster than its prior version ...

Novell has released the first service pack (SP1) for its Suse Linux Enterprise 10 server software, which promises better virtualisation and high performance support along with improved security.

Start-up Trigence last week announced that its application virtualization software, which can run in VMware virtual machine environments, now runs on Solaris. Trigence virtualizes applications across ...

John Hamilton, EVP and Chief Operating Officer of Trigence, and I had a long discusion about application virtualization recently. One of the more challenging issues for suppliers of application ...

I've been using VMware for my VM needs for quite a while, and am overall very pleased with it stability and general performance. I've been REALLY wanting OpenGL hardware acceleration for my Linux VMs, ...

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

You’ve probably heard about Google Chromebooks. Like Android, Chrome OS is based on some variant of Linux, but it is targeted at the “cloud first” strategy so Chromebooks typically don’t have a huge ...