Software applications in business fit into three categories. The first category contains applications that work but are not core to the business. The second category contains application that more or ...

Kevin Pedretti, lead researcher for Sandia National Laboratories’ virtual external operating system program, uses his laptop computer to inspect a virtual machine experiment running on Sandia’s Red ...

Anyone who frequently installs and uninstalls new software, tests beta versions of programs, or tinkers with the registry in Windows, often reaches the point where they have to completely re-install ...

Web apps that make businesses run faster and better are the name of the game at the Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, Calif. Meet four virtual operating systems that boost workers' speed.

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.) ...

As virtualization software continues to evolve, so do the options for network specialists, IT managers, CTOs, and CIOs. In order to help make the best decision for your organization, it’s important to ...

As I look at the hardware/OS system that surrounds our PCs, I find it wanting. What we should do is use virtual machines to isolate the OS from the hardware and allow a level of OS flexibility and ...

VMware offers a very comprehensive selection of virtualization products, with Fusion for the Apple Mac and Workstation for ...

The Java virtual machine manages application memory and provides a portable execution environment for Java-based applications. Developers reap the rewards in performance, stability, and predictable ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

An operating system is the essential software that's needed to run your computer's suite of software. Everything from video ...