Chipmakers Intel, AMD and Arm Ltd. implement instruction set extensions that enable hardware support for virtualization, but it can be difficult to make sense of the alphabet soup of codes and ...

Hardware virtualization, which is also known as server virtualization or simply virtualization, is the abstraction of computing resources from the software that uses those resources. In a traditional ...

Bob Weiderhold, CEO of Transitive, and I fought off intermittent telephone problems to discuss a technology that is often overlooked when analysts put together their taxonomy of virtual processing ...

I keep hearing that virtualization will save money in hardware and power, because it increases server utilization and can be used to consolidate servers, but how much do you need to spend on initial ...

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Companies like VMware, and more recently XenSource, got their start with standalone virtualization software that let customers run several operating systems simultaneously on a single computer. But ...

Intel and AMD dominate x86 enterprise servers because of their hardware-assisted virtual machine (HVM) support. VIA Technologies included HVM in its VIA Nano and its latest dual-core VIA Nano X2 (Fig ...

Virtualization is an easy sell: Who wouldn’t want to turn underutilized physical servers into a humming little farm of virtual servers you can spin up or down at the drop of a hat? The dirty little ...

Circuits in the CPU and controller chips that enhance the running of multiple operating systems (multiple virtual machines). They deal with functions such as saving and restoring the CPU state upon ...