HP this week announced a new version of its HP Business Service Management (BSM) software to endow IT organizations with big data analysis capabilities across mobile, hybrid, and cloud IT environments ...

Parallels has released version 5.0 of their "Desktop" virtualization package for Mac. Lets hope this solution's graphics enhancements fare better than those in VMWare's latest version of Fusion.

It's a computing truism that when it comes to delivering the fastest possible speeds with high-performance computing (HPC), you must use native computing instead of virtualization. Recent studies have ...

As a recent article on ITBusinessEdge.com shows, virtualization is taking over in a big way. This technology allows better use of system resources by allowing multiple operating environments on a ...

Just like with the SPEC.ORG and TPC.ORG server benchmarks, a number of tests for virtualization performance are emerging. Most server benchmarks are designed to measure the performance of a single ...

With the introduction of Intel's new Quad-Core Xeon Processor 7300 series chips came a new technology from the company called Intel VT FlexPriority. It was designed to accelerate virtualization ...

GPU virtualisation has emerged as a transformative approach, enabling the decoupling of physical graphics processing units from individual compute nodes. This technique allows multiple users or ...

Everyone knows by now that Vista is slower than Windows XP. In fact, my own testing shows it to be roughly twice as slow on the same hardware (see our upcoming Test Center study for more details).