A new survey indicates that the biggest issue for virtualization deployment is insufficient memory installed in servers and not, as is commonly believed, CPU performance. The survey found that, on ...

As with any new hardware, AMD’s Ryzen platform launched earlier this year with plenty of room for improvement. The latest update AMD has released is an AGESA (AMD Generic Encapsulated System) update ...

Simulating more random access memory (RAM) than actually exists, which allows the computer to run larger programs as well as multiple programs concurrently. Actually developed back in the 1950s, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday from ISC memory virtualization startup RNA Networks announced the release of RNAcache. I met with this company when I was out in Portland earlier this month, and they have a really ...

Big Memory software startup MemVerge launched its Memory Machine software designed to turn DRAM and Intel Optane persistent memory into a software-defined memory pool, bringing DRAM performance to ...

If you’re running any amount of compute infrastructure, you’ve already got a lot of “software-defined” things to help squeeze the most out of your hardware and networking. You’re running virtual ...

That means virtualization comes into play at just about every layer of the IT infrastructure. Next up, quite possibly, is memory, said Steve Yatko, managing director of Credit Suisse’s Global Research ...

Virtualization has been a major factor in the enterprise space for years; several virtualization providers have become billion-dollar companies. More recently, virtualization has started to become a ...

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