Microsoft has followed a rival in advocating virtualization as a way to try out software painlessly. Microsoft's Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format can be used to collect an operating system, higher-level ...

After a five-month beta program that saw more than 700,000 downloads, VMware this week said it would offer VMware Server, its virtualization software, for free. Virtualization is a technique for ...

If there’s one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it’s virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...

Microsoft‘s new virtualization licensing model for its Windows Server System could dramatically lower costs for users and help advance industry efforts to define how software should be licensed as ...

A company whose virtualization software lets Windows programs run on Mac OS X will soon make the move to the more demanding server market. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Hewlett-Packard on Monday rolled out a new generation of mid- and high-end Unix-based servers powered by its sx2000 chip set, code-named Arches, along with improved virtualization and management ...

Does server virtualization work for small-to-medium-sized companies? You bet. As you know, virtualization software allows you to run multiple virtual machines on the same physical host. Each virtual ...

Server-virtualization software imposes no constraints on the versions of Windows Server operating system (or Linux) that you place in each virtual machine (although a completely new version of Windows ...

Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced new servers that come pre-configured with Microsoft software to help companies deploy virtualized workloads more quickly. HP’s VirtualSystem for Microsoft includes ...

Virtualization, one of the fastest growing trends in IT, lets any organization run multiple server functions on a single computer. Virtualization also makes it easier to start up new server emulations ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Server virtualization through the use of software products such as VMware has been implemented to varying degrees in corporate IT, with some successful and some not-so-successful outcomes. This year, ...