Phoenix Technologies exposes HyperCore hypervisor

In October 2007 virtualization.info broke the news about a historical vendor entering the virtualization market, Phoenix Technologies, with a brand new hypervisor called HyperCore. The company officially confirmed the news one month later, with a further strategy announcement, dubbed PC 3.0.

Waiting for the official announcement, virtualization.info is able to show an interactive presentation realized by Phoenix itself which overviews the PC 3.0 architecture and HyperCore role:

(click to start and touch the arrow inside the movie)

Click here to start

(Copyright © 2008 Phoenix Technologies Ltd.)

It’s evident that Phoenix aims at consumer market, shaping the hypervisor to create one-purpose computers for vertical markets.

Phoenix Technologies has been included in the (just revamped) virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Radar

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