Parallels has released version 5.0 of their "Desktop" virtualization package for Mac. Lets hope this solution's graphics enhancements fare better than those in VMWare's latest version of Fusion.

Just like with the SPEC.ORG and TPC.ORG server benchmarks, a number of tests for virtualization performance are emerging. Most server benchmarks are designed to measure the performance of a single ...

Jacob Aron’s article on the new generation of virtual reality (VR) equipment focuses on its use in films or games (7 March, p 20). As the article notes, this can cause problems: in the case of ...

Everyone knows by now that Vista is slower than Windows XP. In fact, my own testing shows it to be roughly twice as slow on the same hardware (see our upcoming Test Center study for more details).

Linux giant Red Hat is moving the ball forward on its mission of becoming a key virtualization and cloud infrastructure player. To that end, the company has announced the latest release of its ...