One of the more intricate things we've seen at CES is the development of a new portable application platform from Moka5 called LivePC. Unlike traditional portable applications that are simply modified Windows applications, LivePC is built entirely on... Read More...

Ben Armstrong, the Virtual PC Guy, explains that under Virtual Server each virtual machine has access to the same processor capabilities that are present in the physical computer. He offers a sample script that uses the Virtual Server COM API to find out the processor capabilities that are currentl... Read More...

When you think about virtualization, you probably think about VMware, or maybe Xen, and hopefully, even OpenVZ. With all the buzz surrounding this space, I thought it time to discuss three of the four different types of virtualization: emulation, paravirtualization, operating system-level virtualiza... Read More...

Although we have been talking about storage virtualisation for the past five years, it is only now that enterprises have started deploying virtualisation tools. A virtualisation solution needs to be simple and should provide tools to trace events. At present virtualisation is coming into play to fac... Read More...

While talking with colleagues at EMA about the acquisition late December of Ardence by Citrix Systems, an interesting question came up – will this new model of virtual provisioning eliminate desktop management, and especially legacy-style desktop provisioning? Most of you will have heard of Citr... Read More...