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Mendel Rosenblum on Virtualization in Modern Computing Environments

Today, VMware co-founder Mendel Rosenblum gave a Deuterzos Lecture at MIT titled The Impact of Virtualization on Modern Computing Environments. His talk outlined the general function of virtualization as an interposing layer between the hardware and the operating system, and the evolution of functionality in this layer over the past decade—in short, the talk [...]

Mobile virtualization demonstration at VMworld

At today’s VMworld keynote, CTO Steve Herrod included a brief demonstration of the project that I have been working on at VMware since last May: the Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP). One of the downsides of working in industry as opposed to academia is that you have to wait for big release dates such as [...]