Virtual machines, simulated PCs with their own operating systems running within another computer’s software, are super freakin’ cool. (That’s a technical term, I’m a professional technology writer.) ...

I will turn down free beer software in favor of freedom software when both exist. If you don't know the difference, that's OK. You cannot see the source code for the video drivers from ATI, for ...

Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday it is bundling its HP StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance with its new HP ProLiant Generation 9 Grantley-based servers. The company is also providing its HP ...

Virtual Computer wants users of server-hosted virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to know about what it thinks is a better way to offer secure, managed Windows desktop environments, the use of ...

AppZero is planning to showcase its tools for creating Virtual Application Appliances (VAAs) at this week’s Demo conference in Palm Desert, Calif. In general, software appliances bundle an application ...

A few months ago when VMware released a free VMware Player, I challenged Microsoft to do the same. Not only has Microsoft answered, but they've gone a step further and made their Virtual Server 2005 ...

In our Clear Choice Test, Virtual Server 2005 proved itself well worth the money because it lets you run multiple instances of Windows on the same machine. VMware (recently acquired by EMC) has long ...

Touting support for both Intel and AMD virtualization technology, Microsoft released a second beta of its Virtual Server 2005 Release 2 Service Pack 1 (R2 SP1) this week. The capabilities of the free ...

Around the same time that VMware updated its Workstation product with a new refresh build, Microsoft also updated both of its hosted virtualization platforms, Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005 ...

'You're going to see licensing for VDI and instances of VDI going through the roof,' one Nvidia partner says of the jump in demand for virtual desktop infrastructure solutions like Nvidia's GRID ...