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 ...

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 ...

Specifying and validating embedded systems and chips becomes increasingly challenging as feature sets and non-functional constraints grow. It's especially difficult when the system involves a ...

Virtualization companies, unwilling to see core products become a mere operating system feature, are signing deals to build them into hardware. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

While IBM delivered solid results and its software and services businesses shined, the hardware business was a disappointment to many Big Blue watchers. The growing popularity of virtualization may be ...

A new technical paper titled “CVA6 RISC-V Virtualization: Architecture, Microarchitecture, and Design Space Exploration” was written by researchers at Universidade do Minho (Portugal), University of ...

An idea being floated around at the office is to create a server lab for virtualization, to experiment with various hypervisors (Xen, ESX, HyperV, SunxVM). I've been doing some work on virtualization, ...

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 ...