Note: The following column originally appeared in Amkai’s May newsletter.The English language has witnessed a major expansion as a result of the need for new terms related to technology. Interestingly ...

This year it seems like every other computing news story has discussed virtualization, and if you haven’t yet got a grip on what it means, you probably feel a little left-out. Virtualization seems to ...

Whether you’re a business owner or system administrator, you’ve probably been approached about “cloud computing,” an umbrella term encompassing many different platforms and a major source of confusion ...

One of the big questions in technology for the last three years has been how end users will adopt desktop virtualization. The answer, at least from some early adopters, seems to be “how won’t we do it ...

If Neo from The Matrix ever called a team of IT guys to help him defeat the machines harvesting humans for power, the conversation might go something like this: Neo: "What I need is for you guys to ...

In a recent discussion, the topic of Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors came up. To some, this is an arbitrary distinction that doesn't matter much as there's already an inherent understanding of what the ...