Virtualization
Earlier this year, we wrote a news segment about AMD and Google’s announcement about bringing confidential virtual machines to the cloud using features enabled through 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. At the time, AMD and Google marketed the announcement as the first commercially available cloud confidential VMs, powered through AMD’s Secure Encryption Virtualization feature. After writing up the news, I got a rather sternly worded email from IBM, stating that AMD/Google were not the first – IBM claims to have been offering confidential VMs to its client base for almost two years at this point. The difference I could find is that Google’s offering is more open-to-the-public, compared to IBM’s solution which is strictly more a B2B arrangement. Today AMD and IBM are combining their...
Google’s new Confidential Virtual Machines on 2nd Gen AMD EPYC
With AMD’s market share slowly increasing, it becomes very interesting to see where EPYC is being deployed. The latest announcement today comes from AMD and Google, with news that...
21 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/14/2020
NVIDIA Announces GRID 2.0, Tesla M60 & M6 Server Cards
Kicking off this week in San Francisco is VMware’s annual VMworld conference. One of the major yearly virtualization conferences, it’s also host to a number of virtualization-related product announcements...
6 by Ryan Smith on 8/30/2015
NAS Units as VM Hosts: QNAP's Virtualization Station Explored
Virtualization has been around since the 1960s, but it has emerged as a hot topic over the last decade or so. Despite the rising popularity, its applications have been...
40 by Ganesh T S on 8/18/2014
NVIDIA GRID Update: NVIDIA Launches GRID Test Drive for VDI Desktops
For the last several years now NVIDIA has been heavily pursuing the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) market. In NVIDIA’s continuing efforts to maintain and expand their presence in the...
16 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2014
Intel's Xeon E5-2600 V2: 12-core Ivy Bridge EP for Servers
The core architecture inside the latest Xeon is typically a step behind what you find inside the latest desktop and notebook chips. A longer and more thorough validation is...
72 by Johan De Gelas on 9/17/2013
Supermicro Launches 100+ Server Solutions Based on the Xeon E5 Family
The Sandy Bridge based Xeon E5-2600 processors were launched by Intel yesterday, and Supermicro wasn't far behind in launching a host of solutions supporting / based on these processors...
33 by Ganesh T S on 3/7/2012
The Xeon E5-2600: Dual Sandy Bridge for Servers
Eight improved cores, 16 threads, integrated 40 lane PCIe 3.0: the new socket 2011 Xeon E5-2660 manages to package it all in a very modest power envelope of 95W...
81 by Johan De Gelas on 3/6/2012
Virtualized or Not? We've Got Numbers
We have had epic discussions with quite a few readers about the importance of virtualization in our reviews. In our six-core Opteron review we wrote: "Let there be no misunderstanding...
35 by Johan De Gelas on 2/15/2012
Microsoft Integrating Hyper-V Into Windows 8 Client
Microsoft is beefing up virtualization support in Windows 8 with Hyper-V, writes Microsoft's Mathew John on the Building Windows 8 blog. Hyper-V was previously available in Windows Server 2008...
9 by Andrew Cunningham on 9/7/2011
Ask the Experts: Virtualization & Cloud Computing Questions Answered
Last year we ran a little series called Ask the Experts where you all wrote in your virtualization related questions and we got them answered by experts at Intel...
56 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/17/2011
Virtualization - Ask the Experts #6
We conclude our series of Ask the Experts with four questions you all asked about servers and virtualization in previous posts. Thanks to everyone who participated and we hope...
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/1/2010Virtualization - Ask the Experts #5
A couple of months ago we ran a webcast with Intel Fellow, Rich Uhlig, VMware Chief Platform Architect, Rich Brunner and myself. The goal was to talk about the...
27 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/29/2010Virtualization - Ask the Experts #4
Our Ask the Experts series continues with another round of questions. A couple of months ago we ran a webcast with Intel Fellow, Rich Uhlig, VMware Chief Platform Architect, Rich...
9 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/10/2010Virtualization - Ask the Experts #3
Our Ask the Experts series continues with another round of questions. A couple of months ago we ran a webcast with Intel Fellow, Rich Uhlig, VMware Chief Platform Architect, Rich...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/2/2010Virtualization - Ask the Experts #2
Our Ask the Experts series continues with another round of questions. A couple of months ago we ran a webcast with Intel Fellow, Rich Uhlig, VMware Chief Platform Architect, Rich...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/27/2010Virtualization - Ask the Experts #1
A couple of months ago we ran a webcast with Intel Fellow, Rich Uhlig, VMware Chief Platform Architect, Rich Brunner and myself. The goal was to talk about the...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/22/2010
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