If you haven’t been paying a lot of attention, you might have missed the rise of a new form of virtualization, based at the operating system level, called “containers.” While there are many specific ...

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Operating system virtualization software Virtuozzo from SWsoft is growing fastest among all vendors -- 98 percent -- in the hot overall market for virtualization technology, according to industry ...

The OpenVZ Project Thursday will release its kernel for Novell’s Suse Linux Enterprise 10, said project officials. OpenVZ, a scaled-down, open source version of SWSoft’s Virtuozzo technology, is ...

Hang around enterprise computing types long enough, and you’ll wind up talking about “the stack” at some point. It’s a term used to refer to the complicated layers of software that run in modern data ...

A key but quiet component of Cisco’s “open” data center operating system is the ability to build applications and microservices via Linux containers. It’s not a new capability but an increasingly ...

The OpenVZ project announced availability of its operating system-level server virtualization software in the form of a kernel based on Linux 2.6.9, including for the first-time in a stable branch, ...

Virtualization is hot because its so useful. As if that wasnt enough, the word “free” frequently now accompanies virtualization, but, as weve come to understand, free can mean many things. To take a ...

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 ...

Do you primarily use Windows 11 but want to have a quick look at a Linux distribution like Linux Mint? Well, booting from a live DVD or USB stick is a convenient solution. The advantage of this is ...