Although VMware claims vSphere 4 is a "cloud operating system", it is not an operating system in the traditional sense — instead, it manages virtual processors across multiple cores and the ...

Virtual machines can feel rather sluggish at times – especially if you use the default settings on a Type-2 hypervisor. But ...

VMware on April 21 launched vSphere 4, a major update to its ESX Server hypervisor, declaring it to be the first operating system specifically engineered for cloud computing. It is the first major ...

Everything VMware introduces seems to be moving it in the direction of becoming the Internet operating system, including the new products announced on Tuesday.

Whenever a company changes the name of their major product you often have to wonder what level of change they are trying to signal. In the case of VMware which changed ESX to vSphere yesterday ...

VMware has unveiled vSphere, the long awaited overhaul of its core virtualization platform that will aggregate all the virtual resources in the data center into one centrally managed computing pool.

Managing operating systems and other software in the provisioned VM, including patching, upgrades, configuration, firewalls, network addressing and management; performing all security scans, intrusion ...

Like other virtual-machine utilities, VMware Workstation 5 lets one computer stand in for many others running multiple operating systems.

The OS virtualization method differs from the traditional "virtual machine" (VM) method, because it shares one operating system just as in the typical user's computer.