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 ...

Advanced Micro Devices today announced it will license its I/O virtualization technology specification. The effort is designed to encourage the technology’s widespread adoption by hardware and ...

Thanks to the backward, “all software owns the entire system” design of the x86 CPU architecture, PC client and server virtualization is one of the most challenging tasks facing system software ...

Intel and AMD dominate x86 enterprise servers because of their hardware-assisted virtual machine (HVM) support. VIA Technologies included HVM in its VIA Nano and its latest dual-core VIA Nano X2 (Fig ...

With the increasing use of virtualization technology on Intel-based servers for mid-tier application workloads, IBM Corp. and Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel Corp. are working together to improve how ...

For years the only solutions for WAN optimization have been hardware-based appliances. But recently WAN optimization and application acceleration technologies have leveraged virtualization technology ...

Virtualization is a technique where a physical server can be divided into multiple virtual servers and each server has its own resources like RAM, CPU, disk storage etc. Initially the concept of ...

Although virtualization seems to be the newest catch phrase, the concept has actually been around since the ’60s when IBM created a research system that was designed to explore new computing concepts ...