Sometimes free doesn't mean have to be a subpar experience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Virtual Machines are instanced ...

Virtual machines, simulated PCs with their own operating systems running within another computer’s software, are super freakin’ cool. (That’s a technical term, I’m a professional technology writer.) ...

While we haven’t compared VMware backup solutions one to one, it is easy to understand based on features. Offers native backup and replication for VMware, Hyper-V, or AWS environments, i.e., work over ...

In our Clear Choice Test, Virtual Server 2005 proved itself well worth the money because it lets you run multiple instances of Windows on the same machine. VMware (recently acquired by EMC) has long ...

While VMware holds the lion’s share of the server virtualization market, several competing products are available — or are in the works. Here’s how a few of the key players stack up. Virtual Server ...

When Microsoft released Windows Vista with a backup tool that images your entire system down into one file, I was very interested. My interest in this new feature, called CompletePC Backup, waned ...

Touting support for both Intel and AMD virtualization technology, Microsoft released a second beta of its Virtual Server 2005 Release 2 Service Pack 1 (R2 SP1) this week. The capabilities of the free ...

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...