Parallels has released version 5.0 of their "Desktop" virtualization package for Mac. Lets hope this solution's graphics enhancements fare better than those in VMWare's latest version of Fusion.

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Performance management has ...

Through the use of their innovative software solution, InovaWave claims that they can increase virtual machine density and performance at the same time. In today's world of server virtualization, ...

VMware Workstation supports two mechanisms to create copies of VMs: full and linked clones. [Click on image for larger view.] A full clone makes an exact copy of the files that make up the VM. In ...

Just like with the SPEC.ORG and TPC.ORG server benchmarks, a number of tests for virtualization performance are emerging. Most server benchmarks are designed to measure the performance of a single ...

Cisco Systems Tuesday unveiled new technology that will add virtualization, increased capacity and improved performance to its mainstay modular switch platforms. The San Jose, Calif.-based vendor is ...

Intel recently announced the details of the company's forthcoming family of processors, codenamed Penryn, which is slated for release in the second half of this year. These new processors benefit from ...

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 ...

I must admit while I do the vast majority of everything computer related on Linux and OS X, I have an unfortunate weakness for Ultima Online, which requires that I use VMWare to play in Linux and ...

We're starting to see more and more system designs that clearly have as a target virtualized workloads. Dell's the latest example. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although the opinions ...