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 ...

Everyone in IT circles understands the appeal of virtualized servers. Having a virtualized data center transforms IT assets into more agile, efficient and scalable solutions. A single physical server ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

I have been very interested in virtualization security since early 2004 and it now seems like it has become a mainstream topic. Most of the focus however is on securing the technology of ...

The next-generation datacenter is filled with virtualization, offering virtual servers, virtual desktops, virtual storage, and virtual applications -- but what about the network? When creating the ...

The storage infrastructure that supports a virtualized server environment can quickly become a roadblock to expansion. As the project grows, server virtualization places new performance and scaling ...

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 ...