*EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series about alternative desktop technologies for improving management and security of Windows and other desktop platforms. One Boston-based ISV is giving ...

This is 2016. We are supposed to be living in a connected world where everything is possible. We are supposed to be able to accomplish just about anything no matter where we are. Unfortunately, that ...

The next version of Microsoft's on-premises suite of management software is here. System Center 2016 is full of new abilities. This article will look at what's new and enhanced specifically for ...

Canonical hopes its Jeos--'just enough operating system'--will be used as a foundation to package software for virtual machines. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

Virtualization is one of my favorite topics. I often write about how it's a silver-bullet solution to a lot of problems. For example, I just mentioned yesterday how, if the vendor of your favorite ...

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In a perfect world, a computer would stay just as pristine and lightning-fast as the day it came out of the box. Performance wouldn’t get bogged down by all the applications added and removed from its ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yokogawa Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6841) announces that it has developed an N-IO standard field enclosure and a control system virtualization platform. The enclosure is a ...

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 ...