As RackN CEO, Rob Hirschfeld drives a vision in which enterprises can not just run their own infrastructure, but do it faster and at much better ROIs than better cloud systems. Trained as an ...

In an information technology ecosystem characterized by constant change, virtualized tools that ensure flexibility for scaling enterprise data are quickly becoming standard in modern business. While ...

Unikernels: The Next Generation of Cloud Technology We’re hearing a lot about the “bare-metal cloud” these days. The idea is that you can have cloud services not on a virtualized infrastructure but ...

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 ...

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 ...

Platform9, provider of open-source SaaS managed solutions for private and edge clouds, is releasing Platform9 Managed Bare Metal, allowing IT teams to transform their installed physical servers into ...

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 ...

Parallels announces a bare-metal hypervisor, an update to its Virtuozzo Containers, and a new virtualization automation and management tool Going back as far as 2005, Parallels has been talking about ...

Leading virtualization software vendors Citrix Systems and VMware are both running behind in plans to ship so-called bare-metal hypervisors for desktop PCs. Desktop virtualization: Microsoft, VMware ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Whether the goal is ...

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 ...