Mobile handsets are getting smarter. However, behind this fact is complexity: Designs are growing more complex and connectivity issues are evolving, adding to the challenges that developers face in ...

The Separation Kernel Hypervisor and Microkernel technologies have emerged as the leading contenders in hosting next-generation embedded safety and security critical compute platforms. Both ...

CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - August 13, 2009) - Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), the leading global provider of embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband Internet devices, today ...

OKL4, Open Kernel Labs' commercial version of the L4 microkernel, provides the required features for next-generation medium- to high-end embedded systems. These include virtualization and protection ...

Bali, Indonesia--BEA Systems has come up with its own microkernel operating system by stretching Java down to the Hypervisor level. The system promises to radically increase performance and to give ...

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, computer ...

The release of Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 this past summer illustrates the rapid adoption of virtualization: VMs have become so prevalent that Microsoft includes the technology as a standard tool ...

Initially, few data centers thought they needed virtualization. After all, x86 servers were relatively cheap, and it was relatively easy to load an application onto a single, dedicated machine ...

SYSGO and AMD have formed a cooperative venture to exploit AMD multi-core technology in conjunction with SYSGO's PikeOS paravirtualization real-time operating system. Stated in a recent press release, ...

The technology industry loves to redraw boundary lines with new abstractions, then proclaim that prior approaches are obsolete. It happens in every major arena: application architectures (monoliths vs ...