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  Virtualization Report | David Marshall » 
December 31, 2008
I
C
ORE BRINGS
OS
VIRTUALIZATION TO THE HOME USER 
 
iCore Software brings OS virtualization to the home client PC and to Windows XP -- making it the first to offer container-based virtualization for the Windows desktop 
TAGS:Server Virtualization
 
,http://icoresoftware.com 
 Virtualization has become one of the biggest buzzwords thrown around the IT industryover the last few years. The technology itself has so many different applications, butmost people think about server or hardware virtualization when talking about thetechnology. Application virtualization is starting to get recognized in the industry,while OS virtualization or containers is still relatively unknown even though it has beenaround for quite some time.There are two commercial players in this space that stand out: Sun Microsystems andParallels.While Sun has been slowly moving toward hardware virtualization, the company hasbeen offering its Solaris Containers (Zones) solution for quite a while to Solaris users.Parallels on the other hand continues to sell its Parallels Virtuozzo Containers offeringfor Windows and Linux; and through its deals with hosting companies, it remains theleader in OS virtualization. A new player in this OS virtualization market has now emerged from stealth mode:iCore Software.The company was founded in 2007 by a group of students from the Moscow Instituteof Physics and Technologies (MIPT) in Russia where the company's R&D centerremains.Their vision is to help make computing safe through easy adaptation of virtualizationtechnology. To that end, iCore Software has released Computer 3-in-1 -- the firstcontainer-based virtualization product for the Microsoft Windows XP OperatingSystem. Yes, the company is bringing to market a home-based version of OS virtualization.
 
 2iCore's container solution, called iCore Virtual Accounts, isolates and protects thevarious 'identities' or roles that a home computer may have such as work, kids,games, or Internet. For every application and/or user, Virtual Account is anautonomous OS.Each Virtual Account has full dedicated PC functionality with its own processes, files,and applications by using a virtualization layer in the kernel of the host OS. And unlike
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