Hypervisors are showing up in more places than ever before as a quick and inexpensive way to utilize multiple cores and multiple chips more effectively and more securely. This marks an interesting ...

Traditionally found only in the data center, hypervisors are branching out into new territory: laptops. There, hypervisors' advantages are coming into sharper focus. John Cook's workforce is going ...

The bare-metal hypervisor, also known as a Type 1 hypervisor, is desktop virtualization software that is installed directly onto the PC’s hardware. But the technology is in its infancy — even big ...

I recently had an involved discussion with Robert C. McCammon, Vice President of Product Management of Open Kernel Labs, about the need for hypervisor technology, that is virtual machine software, on ...

Hypervisors are just the skirmish before the virtualisation war proper, according to vendors and analysts, with virtualisation management set to pull in the big money in years to come. In recent times ...

Here’s the basic question: where does the hypervisor–the software layer that underpins server virtualization–live and who owns it? Is it just part of the server or is it just part of the operating ...

One of the dynamics of the server virtualization marketplace that doesn’t get the attention it probably should is the question of where the hypervisor “lives” and gets delivered to buyers. Services, ...

Desktop hypervisors offer companies a way to run multiple operating systems, and the applications tied to them, on a single client machine. Common use cases would be support staff, help desk and ...

The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the ...

Desktop virtualization is hot — ask any IT pundit. But it can also be confusing, because the market contains a variety of server- and client-based technologies for creating virtual desktops. Virtual ...