In a recent discussion, the topic of Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors came up. To some, this is an arbitrary distinction that doesn't matter much as there's already an inherent understanding of what the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In June 2019, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published its draft of ...

If you've ever worked on coding projects, DevOps tasks, or even computing experiments, you've probably used virtual machines. From experimenting with wacky ideas to tinkering with different operating ...

IBM and Red Hat, Inc. announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with the KVM hypervisor on IBM Systems has been awarded Common Criteria Certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+). The ...

Support for kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) hypervisor offers flexibility and cost efficiency for customers operating on-premises and private clouds BURNABY, British Columbia–(BUSINESS ...

In a new blog, Jean Staten Healy, Director, Worldwide Linux and Open Virtualization, IBM, observes that open source hypervisor KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is gaining ground in the enterprise.

KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, is the up-and-coming enterprise virtualization contender. It’s lean, mean, fast, and runs unmodified guest operating systems with ease. In this crash course we’ll ...

Virtualization has been a major factor in the enterprise space for years; several virtualization providers have become billion-dollar companies. More recently, virtualization has started to become a ...

What is virtualization anyway? This five-part series on a trend that is reaching into every corner of the technology landscape addresses that fundamental question, along with many of the complex ...