The term “virtualization” has been around for ages, and it’s often thrown around by some of the most notable industry giants, such as AMD, Intel, Microsoft, Sun and more. But do you know what it is, ...

In 2003, Intel announced that it was working on a technology called "Vanderpool" that was aimed at providing hardware-level support for something called "virtualization." With that announcement, the ...

Over the past several years, virtualization has made major inroads into enterprise IT infrastructures. And now it is moving into the realm of high performance computing (HPC), especially for such ...

Virtualization has been a hot topic in the enterprise space for quitesome time, but has recently become an important technology for embeddedsystems as well. It is therefore important for ...

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In the previous installment of the Virtualization Guide, I talked in general ways about the exculsive hardware access privileges that the OS reserves for itself. Now it’s time to nuance that picture a ...