There are two kinds of virtual machine managers, but for servers, data centers, and clouds there's only one that matters: Bare metal hypervisors Once upon a time, there was nothing but native, or bare ...

AWS recently announced new bare metal instances for Amazon EC2. The new M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn instances are already available and can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth. The new bare metal ...

The phrase “bare-metal client hypervisor” is a mouthful, but one IT execs ought to get used to saying in the coming years. The phrase “bare-metal client hypervisor” is a mouthful, but one IT execs ...

Talked to a rep today at Virtual Computing. There are some "soft gotchas" with the bare metal VM concept. ( A soft gotcha is one that if you gave it a second thought or two, you would've known about ...

These little-known cloud resources offer lower latency and higher compute power but are best for specific use cases. Here’s how to determine when they offer reasonable solutions. I did something last ...

At its core, there are two major types of virtualisation: Type 1 and Type 2. There are complaints attached to these labels, and there are hybrids that defy them, but by and large they serve their ...

Citrix Systems Inc. said today that it is working with Intel Corp. to develop a “bare-metal” hypervisor for desktop and laptop PCs, a move that is aimed at broadening the use of desktop virtualization ...

The cloud market is witnessing renewed interest in bare metal, for which providers have offered services since 2009. But bare metal has recently been brought to the mainstream, with Mirantis’s ...