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 ...

Containers are a serious and emerging contender as a method of application delivery. Although they are by no means in use universally yet, most enterprises have deployed containers somewhere or are ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The OpenStack community today released Rocky, the 18th version of the most widely deployed open source cloud infrastructure software. The software now powers more than ...

Hypervisor could broaden the use of desktop virtualization by making it easier to create and centrally manage virtual desktop images for PCs used in the workplace Citrix Systems is working with Intel ...

OpenStack is getting bigger than ever. It now powers more than 75 public cloud data centers and thousands of private clouds at a scale of more than 10 million compute cores. But it's always been hard ...

The cloud market is witnessing renewed interest in bare metal, for which providers have offered services since 2009. But bare metal has recently been brought to the mainstream, with Mirantis’s ...

These little-known cloud resources offer lower latency and higher compute power but are best for specific use cases. Here’s how to determine when they offer reasonable solutions. I did something last ...

The short version: VMware stood accused of illegally using Linux code in its flagship VMware ESX bare-metal virtual machine (VM) hypervisor. The story began in August 2006, when prominent Linux ...