Virtualization is something that has been around for quite a long time. It has been a staple of the mainframe world for well over 30 years. It has been part of the midrange systems world for over 20 ...

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 ...

Microsoft recently made a move to consolidate servers and workstations running Windows, as it consolidated the partitioning market for Intel machines. It acquired many of the assets of Connectix, ...

Docker containers are lightweight, self-contained packages capable of efficiently running various services. Virtual machines are more robust, emulate full computers, and require more resources, but ...

(1) A synonym for a language interpreter. See interpreter, Java Virtual Machine and Python. (2) Software that enables a different operating system and applications to run in a computer along with the ...

When Todd Danko signed off his work computer April 3, he let out a sigh of relief and then hoped the system he had spent two weeks working on nonstop wouldn’t crash over the weekend. Danko is an ...

One of the more competitive desktop software categories today was nearing extinction a decade ago, even though there's now much less need for it than there was back then. It's funny how the software ...

According to IDC, the worldwide virtual machine software (VMS) market grew to $560 million in 2005, a robust 67% growth over the previous year and topping the 63% year-over-year growth recorded in ...

VMware Inc. today shipped Fusion 2.0, a major update for its virtualization software that lets Intel-based Macs run Windows, Linux and other operating systems. The upgrade is free to current Fusion ...

Virtual Drive software is one of the best alternatives to DVDs and other physical storage drives we’ve been using. As the name suggests, it’s a virtual drive wherein you can mount data, store it, ...

My primary development machine is a 2.8ghz pentium 4 desktop running a regularly updated ubuntu 10.10 linux distribution which I would prefer to not change. It currently contains plenty of disk and ...