Archive for the ‘Performance’ Category

Modern OSes take steps to reduce the power usage of the system. Things such as throttling the CPU speed and putting the CPUs in to a halted state when they are not being used.
An article on Computer World points out that hypervisors today push the peddle to the metal on the host system whenever even [...]

VMWare, Inc. announced last week that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire B-hive Networks, Inc.  This is a strategic move for VMware to provide proactive performance management solutions for its customer base.  VMware will take advantage of the human capital and technologies from the purchase as well as the R&D center in [...]