Aside from their highly customizable nature and lack of privacy-intrusive services, live boot is one of the best features of Linux distributions. After all, the ability to boot into a random distro ...

Kevin Pedretti, lead researcher for Sandia National Laboratories’ virtual external operating system program, uses his laptop computer to inspect a virtual machine experiment running on Sandia’s Red ...

Throughout the ’90s, an IT buyer looking to add storage and other services to his company’s network simply bought more servers. Operating system-specific network clients and applications made ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

In the past five years, server virtualization has grown from a niche concept adopted by only the largest and bravest enterprises into an indispensable part of everyday datacenter operations. Yet ...

Ten years ago, I was running a stakeholder-focused company using a traditional operating system that tracked our key performance indicators in pursuit of goals and, of course, profit. On paper, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Supercomputers have sprung up across the world landscape like the statues on Easter Island — separate, huge, and impenetrable to the average person. They perform hundreds of ...