What is virtualization anyway? This five-part series on a trend that is reaching into every corner of the technology landscape addresses that fundamental question, along with many of the complex ...

Relative to the impact of server virtualization on the WAN, the good news is that unto itself, server virtualization does not put additional traffic onto the enterprise WAN. However, many IT ...

As the mainstream continues to adopt virtualization into their IT environments, the question of IT security still comes up. In fact, some worry that security might even pose a bigger problem within a ...

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa, July 12, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — TeamQuest Corporation published study results that identify three majorchallenges associated with virtualization and server consolidation accordingto IT ...

The trend of virtualization is one of the most powerful forces in technology. Using data abstraction and control, the functions of compute, networking, and storage are being virtualized to create a ...

That's the take of XenSource vice president of marketing John Bara. Looking around the stage he was sharing with those same vendors, Bara hedged, intimating that so far, everyone's been playing nice ...

There appears to be a challenger to ‘VM sprawl’ as the scourge of virtualization success — a problem I call ‘VM stall’. We know about ‘VM sprawl’ — because new virtual machines are so easy to deploy, ...

Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) moves switching out of the server back to the physical network and makes all virtual machine traffic visible to the external network switch, freeing up server ...

Server virtualization through the use of software products such as VMware has been implemented to varying degrees in corporate IT, with some successful and some not-so-successful outcomes. This year, ...

Commentary--If you're like most IT managers, your boss probably expect you to do more with less: expand your IT capabilities and infrastructure while doing it with reduced funds, staff and hardware.

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...