Specifying and validating embedded systems and chips becomes increasingly challenging as feature sets and non-functional constraints grow. It's especially difficult when the system involves a ...

Computer system virtualization was first introduced in mainframes during the 1960s and 1970s. Although virtualization remained a largely untapped facility during the 1980s and 1990s, computer ...

In "Fat-Finger Hero," I mentioned how recovering from a bad configuration can be an admin's saving grace. I mentioned how one of the more common areas to get stuck is host networking, and I mentioned ...

I recall teaching a college class in operating systems, when well into the class, thinking I was getting the points across, a few of the students stopped the class and asked “Yes, but what really is ...

Just like algae blooms in the ocean and pollen in the spring, there’s been an explosion in the past year or two of new software, related tools and lingo from the IT and mainstream/consumer side. Some ...

Qumranet, the commercial sponsor of the KVM virtualization software, has begun beta-testing a desktop virtualization system aimed at geographically distributed organizations. The company’s existing ...

Virtualization has been a key driver behind every major trend in software, from search to social networks to SaaS, over the past decade. In fact, most of the applications we use — and cloud computing ...

"With its support of large scale 'whole stack' slicing, standards such as VXLAN for network virtualization, extensive automation for both deployment and operations, and its integration with top ...

A distributed system is comprised of multiple computing devices interconnected with one another via a loosely-connected network. Almost all computing systems and applications today are distributed in ...

Processor virtualization requires that the OSes residing on the same system be assured isolation from each other by default, just as though every OS was on its own hardware. The data owned by one ...