A German researcher at the University of Marburg has uncovered a security flaw in Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The flaw is a bug in Microsoft's bytecode verifier. According to Princeton University's Secure Internet Programming (SIP) unit...
Two universities in the US are using a fibre optic network to bring together the power of their IBM supercomputers to create one virtual machine capable of processing one trillion operations per second.
One, destined for the Army Research laboratory, will be a custom built 2,132 processor machine. The two Linux Networx clusters will be set up at the US Air Force's Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) and the Aeronautical Systems Center...
These services add value and controls to the IT and finance department but do little to significantly change or enhance business processes. Machine to machine (M2M): This describes the emerging opportunity to use a wireless connection to a remote...
Virtual appliances - 'freeze-dried' software stacks of OS, middleware and application, certified to run together and packaged as a single virtual machine - is an appealing distribution vehicle for software, bearing in mind that most installation...
The version is intended to be a more compact and higher-performance foundation for virtual machine "appliances" that bundle the operating system with higher-level software. In other news of partnerships between the virtualisation and open source...