An announcement from SWsoft just came to my attention. The company is offering a very simple way for small or medium sized organizations to deploy operating system partitioning or virtualization. It ...

A single partition feels simple until something goes wrong ...

Effort is under way to get virtualization into the Linux kernel, so it can catch up with rival OSes in server efficiency. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Drive partitioning is not the hot thing that it once was.

Partitioning, a technology used in mainframe computers, is making its way into mid- and high-end Unix systems where corporate users employ it to isolate and protect applications from each other, ...

This paper presents a new hardware/software partitioning methodology for SoCs. Target architecture is composed of a RISC host and one or more configurable microprocessors. First, a system is ...

A partition separates a section of a physical disk into another virtual drive. When you split a hard drive into two partitions, you're creating a separate disk that your operating system (like Windows ...