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 ...

One of the current ideas about computing is that the operating system is becoming less important. With many software applications and even your data in the cloud, most of the work that you do can be ...

As I look at the hardware/OS system that surrounds our PCs, I find it wanting. What we should do is use virtual machines to isolate the OS from the hardware and allow a level of OS flexibility and ...

Anyone who frequently installs and uninstalls new software, tests beta versions of programs, or tinkers with the registry in Windows, often reaches the point where they have to completely re-install ...

A few months ago I found myself waiting for a flight at the Burbank airport with Mendel Rosenblum. He is a co-founder of VMware and chief scientist at the company and an assistant professor in the ...

VMware offers a very comprehensive selection of virtualization products, with Fusion for the Apple Mac and Workstation for ...

Virtualization eases management for IT staff while limiting disruptions to users. Regardless of company size, user base or area of responsibility, IT administrators must admit that customer service is ...