EMC VMware's ESX 3.0 was released a bit more than three years ago. While ESX 2.5 was a solid virtualization platform, ESX 3.0 seemed to push server virtualization into the realm where a lot of small ...

There is one area where the DOS era’s “I own the whole system” attitude persists, and it’s a virtualization millstone: device drivers. You may not realize how ugly the problem and present solution are ...

With virtualization’s popularity soaring, it was predictable that hardware vendors would eventually bring to market specialized servers that cater to the needs of virtual machines. The market leader ...