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 ...

Shrugging off challenges from rival upstarts touting better technology, virtualization leader VMware Friday released a free beta version of its software for creating multiple operating systems on a ...

Ncomputing's Mike Pagani stopped by to chat about an the company, its products and an upcoming announcement. During the discussion, we talked about why VDI and virtual machine technology on the ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

This year it seems like every other computing news story has discussed virtualization, and if you haven’t yet got a grip on what it means, you probably feel a little left-out. Virtualization seems to ...