Software applications in business fit into three categories. The first category contains applications that work but are not core to the business. The second category contains application that more or ...

Kevin Pedretti, lead researcher for Sandia National Laboratories’ virtual external operating system program, uses his laptop computer to inspect a virtual machine experiment running on Sandia’s Red ...

A virtual PC, also called a virtual machine or VM for short, is a fully-fledged PC system that runs in a window on your PC but remains isolated from it. The virtualization software required for this, ...

Last week’s LinuxWorld Conference in Boston was the locus of several important announcements. Again, virtualization was front and center. In no particular order: * XenSource announced XenEnterprise.

Let’s say you’ve assembled the best server PC money can buy and outfitted it with a powerful virtualization platform. The ...

In an ideal world, disaster recovery strategies would include backup equipment ranging from a single server to an entire dark data center. In the real world, you can’t afford to set up an entire extra ...

With the "Virtual OS Museum", 80 years of computer history can be experienced directly in the emulator. The project makes historical systems usable with a click. If you want to take a deep dive into ...

Do you primarily use Windows 11 but want to have a quick look at a Linux distribution like Linux Mint? Well, booting from a live DVD or USB stick is a convenient solution. The advantage of this is ...