Introduction Computer system virtualization was first introduced in mainframes during the 1960s and 1970s. Although virtualization remained a largely untapped facility during the 1980s and 1990s, ...

AppZero is collaborating with Microsoft to persuade users of Windows Server 2003 to update before Microsoft stops supporting the operating system using AppZero's application virtualization technology.

How AppZero describes "Virtual Application Appliances" VAAs decouple an application from the operating system (OS) and its underlying infrastructure.

Virtualization, when applied to applications, does two things that make it worth testing in a pilot program. First, it isolates applications from the underlying end-user Windows operating system.

Microsoft's release of its Vista operating system has many desktop management vendors scrambling to add support, ease migration and optimize Vista deployments.

The idea behind application virtualization is to eliminate many of the support-draining configuration problems that plague conventional desktop implementations.

The operating system is coupled with a development environment – compilers, debuggers, editors, performance analyzers, and so on – that help engineers build their powerful applications quickly and to ...

Once the physical server is divided, each logical server can run an operating system and applications independently. In the 1990s, virtualization was used primarily to re-create end-user ...

Because of virtualization’s ability to contain and control messy interactions with the operating system, a virtualized application will leave behind very little digital detritus.

Because of virtualization’s ability to contain and control messy interactions with the operating system, a virtualized application will leave behind very little digital detritus.