One of the major advantages of virtualization is the ability to dynamically add CPU and RAM to running virtual machines. Have a box that gets a sudden spike? Add more RAM on the fly and let it go.

Google's Cloud unit on Thursday announced a new family of virtual machine offerings that it claims can offer large percentage improvements in performance and economics for the biggest cloud workloads ...

[Bruce Land] of Cornell University will be a familiar name to many Hackaday readers, searching the site for ‘ECE4760′ will bring up many interesting topics around embedded programming. Every year ...

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 ...

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Technology innovations are continuously impact the Internet, applications, and services. Internet traffic is rapidly expanding and becoming more varied and complex, with an explosion in voice and ...

The VPMC module stands for Virtual CPU Performance Monitoring Counters in VMware. These counters monitor and measure the performance of virtual CPUs within a virtual machine (VM). If you see Module ...

A virtual machine (VM) vulnerability that compromises AMD Zen and Intel Coffee Lake CPUs has been discovered. Revealed last month by researchers at ETH Zürich who described it as the first of its kind ...

Almost all servers and workloads can be virtualized, but in some cases you may not want to virtualize certain servers because of high-resource utilization, licensing issues, and application support ...