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 ...

Server consolidation: Applications running on servers typically use less than 20 percent of the available capacity. Server virtualization allows multiple VMs to run on the same physical server, thus ...

Brien Posey already showed you how to create a Virtual Private Cloud endpoint and a storage gateway. In this third part of the series, he'll show you how to set up the virtual appliance and activate ...

It’s great to have multiple computers. On the first of them, you can install a database or crunch spreadsheets. On another, you can simply browse the Web, listen to music, and check your e-mail. Yet ...

As virtualization, or perhaps more importantly VDI takes hold, end users will require better remoting technology in order to broadly adopt the desktop virtualization technology. So who is stepping up ...

When most people talk about the adoption of virtualization, they are really talking about the adoption of server virtualization. While there is no doubt that server virtualization is the most common ...

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 ...

How to import and export VirtualBox appliances from the command line Your email has been sent If you're working with a headless or GUI-less VirtualBox host, you can still import and export virtual ...

The idea — and benefits of — virtual appliances seem straightforward enough, but IT execs have been slow to adopt the technology. In the virtual appliance model, developers package applications with ...

Licensing has been an issue in virtualization ever since virtual servers began multiplying the number of operating systems and applications that could run on physical servers. Virtual appliances — ...