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 ...

Virtualization is a key enabling technology for the modern datacenter. Without virtualization, tricks like load balancing and multitenancy wouldn’t be available from datacenters that use commodity x86 ...

Although VMware continues to hold the majority share of the commercial virtualization market, other virtualization technologies are increasingly significant, though not necessarily as high profile.

The virtualization of computing environments is not a new concept. Back in the 1960s, IBM experimented with virtualization techniques called paravirtualization, and by the 1970s, the company had some ...

Linux virtualization frenzy has a new challenger: the simplified virtualization technology, KVM, has made it into the standard kernel. Could it be a better approach to using the virtualization ...

It is a widely held misconception that in order to fully make use of the performance available with multicore processors, virtualization in the form of a hypervisor must be used, along with a ...