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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 06 November 2007 | |
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By using ‘hypervisor’ technology, called HyperCore, with hypervior technology most well known from the virtualization space through companies such as VMware and Xen, Phoenix say that HyperCore “is a lightweight Zoned Virtual Machine Monitor (ZVMM) that runs specialized core services side-by-side with Windows” which is “embedded within the core system firmware, or BIOS”. Working with both Intel and AMD, Phoenix say that desktop and notebook vendors using their technology can offer “highly-efficient, instantly available applications that promise to deliver new levels of security, up-time, system reliability, remote management, and ease-of-use to PC users”. These applications can be many and varied and can work completely independently of Windows or other PC based operating systems, and can work before, during and after the operating system boots, is being used or has been shut down. PC users of the not-too-distant future will be able to run a range of apps including ‘instant-on’ multi-media software (already seen on a range of notebook computers allowing the playback of CDs, DVDs and even TV tuners without needing to boot into Windows first, Internet phones (VoIP), email, instant messaging, Web 2.0 and regular HTML browsing, ecommerce and more. Phoenix are also able to offer remote system maintenance software, repair and restore software, and even security software, allowing users to authenticate their computers at the moment of start-up using, for example, a fingerprint reader, allowing instant authentication instead of waiting one to two minutes for Windows to boot and the fingerprint reader to start up. Keeping the system ‘low-power’ aims to deliver longer battery life, while the instant-on capability with custom apps means “mobile PC users [can] be productive at all times”. Read on. |
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