It can do more than just store all your files.

Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s argument that operating systems are no longer the center of innovation in ...

Operating-system virtualization, often called "containers," hasn't captured the limelight the way virtual machines--which can be thought of as hardware-level virtualization--have. However, they've ...

Microsoft’s decision to allow Home versions of Vista to run inside virtual machines may have far-reaching benefits in the coming years. The initial market for such virtual Vista machines is likely to ...

A virtual machine is a computing resource that uses software instead of a physical computer to run programs and deploy applications. It operates by running one or more virtual “guest” machines on a ...

If you've gone to one of the recent VMworld events, you might have heard once or twice that VMware predicted the death of the operating system. I've heard something to that effect, and found it quite ...

We interrupt our scheduled topic (a discussion of Web browser stuff I started last week) to bring you a Network World exclusive Gearhead review of a new virtualization product … vDesk from RingCube ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding an advanced, more powerful 128-bit ZFS file system, new virtualization technologies and the Postgres open-source database to its Solaris 10 Unix operating system, as ...

Operating system virtualization software Virtuozzo from SWsoft is growing fastest among all vendors -- 98 percent -- in the hot overall market for virtualization technology, according to industry ...

Solid-state disk (SSD) drive architecture can play a big role in how fast a computer boots up and performs. But how big a role the SSDs play — and how much faster an operating system is — depends as ...