Universities are working together and sharing resources to create virtual labs with more powerful computing capabilities--and to save much-needed cash. Economies of scale. It's one of those phrases ...

Virtual reality has given us new ways to play games, and has the potential to bring us closer to loved ones around the world, but it’s yet nail down how to let us browse the internet properly. We’re ...

With Windows App (formerly Remote Desktop), you can connect from your Chromebook to a Windows-based computer and work with programs and files on that PC. UB students, faculty and staff use this ...

In its latest step toward utility computing, IBM is offering to let customers use the Internet to tap into the horsepower of servers that run a variety of operating systems. The company's new "virtual ...

The video game community has a proud history of pushing games to their absolute limits: hacking, modifying, exploiting, and building in ways never intended or even imagined by game designers. But for ...

COMMENTARY--The magic word for today is virtualization. IBM has launched its Virtualization Engine, and you can't find a tech company on the planet that doesn't pay at least lip service to the idea.

Desktop as a Service provider Shells offers a new component to virtual cloud computing. It brings Linux distros and Windows 10 to any computer, mobile device, and some game consoles, via any Web ...

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The big virtualization news this week was the partnership announcement from three industry-leading companies: Cisco Systems, EMC, and VMware. The three were already intimately connected to each other ...