Comparison of security postures for containers and different types of hypervisors. Key measures of software security. Security certifications for virtualization solutions. How to improve the security ...

Attackers have already recognized the strategic value of the hypervisor. The question now is whether defenders will treat it ...

It might seem logical to think that you would defend the hypervisor layer the same way you would defend physical servers -- by plugging in IPS or anti-virus software. But MacDonald disagrees. "We ...

Kevin Pedretti, lead researcher for Sandia National Laboratories’ virtual external operating system program, uses his laptop computer to inspect a virtual machine experiment running on Sandia’s Red ...

Managing virtual machines and the systems that support them is a hidden risk. Without tools to manage virtualization, the benefits can be outweighed by the hassle. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 ...

Shortly after The Virtualization Procrastinators appeared in Computerworld last week I was contacted by Jim Ni, Microsoft’s group manager for server virtualization. He wanted to clarify a point in the ...

Linux virtualization frenzy has a new challenger: the simplified virtualization technology, KVM, has made it into the standard kernel. Could it be a better approach to using the virtualization ...

Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

Virtualization is an essential component for any IT outfit looking torun an efficient, manageable, waste-not-want-not shop. It’s not justa tool for large call centers with big server farms. Evensmall- ...

Instead, virtualization must be monitored and managed separately from the operating system, application or the (physical) server layer. (Note: This assumes you’re using hypervisor products like Xen or ...