Intel and AMD dominate x86 enterprise servers because of their hardware-assisted virtual machine (HVM) support. VIA Technologies included HVM in its VIA Nano and its latest dual-core VIA Nano X2 (Fig ...

2005 was a training year for the x86 virtualization race just around the corner, or rather, the quarter. At present, virtualization is primarily associated with carving one physical computer into ...

Hardware-assisted virtualization, now available from both AMD and Intel, is not a breakthrough but the beginning of one. AMD’s SVM (Secure Virtual Machine) and Intel’s VT (Virtualization Technology) ...

Hardware-assisted virtualization from Intel and AMD open the server virtualization market to VMware alternatives like XenSource and Virtual Iron. Brian Gammage pulls no punches when he assesses the ...

Intel contributed the Scalable I/O Virtualization (SIOV) specification to the Open Compute Project (OCP) with Microsoft, enabling device and platform manufacturers to access an industry-standard ...

Microsoft says that you have to be using either Intel VT or AMD-V hardware in order to run Hyper-V. Elsewhere in the Hyper-V documentation, you can read that the required support is “…either AMD64 or ...

Faced with a growing volume of increasingly sophisticated threats and the fact that data is distributed across multiple systems within the enterprise environment, organizations are realizing that ...