Memory virtualization vendor this week announced software that allows x86-based servers to share memory and make a pool of memory available for large data sets that require it. A memory virtualization ...

Polished Mac virtualization that still has to justify its price.

We’ve seen almost all of it now – storage, server, application, I/O and desktop virtualization. Now we are seeing memory virtualization from a start-up company in Portland, Ore., called RNA Networks, ...

A virtualization start-up in stealth mode says it will offer technology that aggregates memory and shares it across servers, improving performance of online transaction processing and clustered or ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

I have 10 Gb of ram.. is there a point where virtual memory becomes a performance decrease or becomes useless? Virtual memory is a hardware feature, and is required by most (all?) modern OSes. You're ...

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