Targeting enterprises that want to consolidate servers, the combination of ESX Server 2 and the Virtual SMP add-on lets IT get more bang for their server hardware buck, said Mike Mullany, senior ...

Extra processing power also lets users multitask more effectively. For example, one core could be used for surfing the Web, while the second core is handling an anti-virus scan. (Processor affinity ...

In the area of cloud computing, i.e. on-demand access to IT resources via the internet, so-called trusted execution environments (TEEs) play a major role. They are designed to ensure that the data on ...

Software vulnerabilities come and go, but vulnerabilities found in hardware are significantly harder to deal with and lead to more problems, such as with Hertzbleed and that family of security issues ...

If you use virtual machines, there's reason to feel less-than-Zen about AMD's CPUs. Computer scientists affiliated with the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany have found a ...

Red Hat formally announced at a press event in San Francisco last week its Integrated Virtualization strategy, aimed at simplifying CPU virtualization deployment for RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) ...

I looked at the SimplyNUC Ryzen 9-7940HS processor mini-PC in a previous article and found its eight-core/16-thread Ryzen 9-7940HS processor very performant. This led me to believe that VMware ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

Technology innovations are continuously impact the Internet, applications, and services. Internet traffic is rapidly expanding and becoming more varied and complex, with an explosion in voice and ...

Almost all servers and workloads can be virtualized, but in some cases you may not want to virtualize certain servers because of high-resource utilization, licensing issues, and application support ...