The bare-metal hypervisor, also known as a Type 1 hypervisor, is desktop virtualization software that is installed directly onto the PC’s hardware. But the technology is in its infancy — even big ...

I’ve been running Type 2 hypervisor apps for years, and whether it’s VMware Workstation, Virtual PC, or Parallels, each has proved vital in allowing me to test and run a wider array of applications ...

Modern science depends on high-performance computing to sift and analyze the sometimes mind-bogglingly large quantities of data generated by experiments, to accurately model complex systems, and to ...

Parallels, known for its virtualization solutions for both desktops and servers, has announced another option for creating virtual servers on Apple's Xserve. The recently announced Parallels Server ...

There are two kinds of virtual machine managers, but for servers, data centers, and clouds there's only one that matters: Bare metal hypervisors Once upon a time, there was nothing but native, or bare ...

Sometimes, for either performance or security reasons, customers don’t want to use a public or a private cloud with virtualized infrastructure. Service providers are increasingly responding to this, ...

Citrix Systems Inc. said today that it is working with Intel Corp. to develop a “bare-metal” hypervisor for desktop and laptop PCs, a move that is aimed at broadening the use of desktop virtualization ...

Desktop virtualization is hot — ask any IT pundit. But it can also be confusing, because the market contains a variety of server- and client-based technologies for creating virtual desktops. Virtual ...