When a computer or an operating system uses software to do anything it normally can’t, the enabling technology tends to get labeled “virtualization.” Well, don’t believe everything you read (except ...

Virtualization was the big topic at last week's Interop event in New York City as vendors and enterprise IT architects alike tout the ability of virtualized environments to reduce costs, improve ...

eSpeaks' Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

There are four major steps on the road to a flexible data center: consolidation, standardization, virtualization and utility. There are four major steps on the road to a flexible data center: ...

Emulation is what we do when we try to make one system behave like or imitate a different system. We want to take System A (something we already have) and give it the inputs we would normally use for ...

As the network has become the center of the IT infrastructure, it has created often-unanticipated benefits that are helping to drive productivity and new capabilities in the workplace. One of those ...

Tony Bishop, CEO of start-up IT consultancy Adaptivity and virtualization go-to guy, explains how to shift from a tactical to a strategic virtualization strategy. As an IT executive at Wachovia, Tony ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

CIO.com recently did a story on the "10 Virtualization Vendors to Watch in 2008". It says, "Virtualization could hardly be hotter as a trend, yet virtualization management and security tools are still ...

Extra processing power also lets users multitask more effectively. For example, one core could be used for surfing the Web, while the second core is handling an anti-virus scan. (Processor affinity ...

Most games I know of that run through a virtualization layer do so through DOSBox, seems to be what's normally packed with games from Good Old Games and whatnot. I'm not interested in DOS games, more ...