VMware’s vSphere virtualization platform is known for its reliability and offers built-in features like High Availability (HA) to ensure that physical server failures have only minor effects on ...

According to Cisco, when combined with a physical storage model (where the storage the server utilizes is dedicated to that server), overall utilization drops to around 15 percent, compared to virtual ...

Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

Virtualizing even a small infrastructure can ease administration and reduce costs. Here's what to look for in a host server, network interfaces, power supplies, and virtualization software.

Server virtualization has been with us in Windows computing for about 10 years. During that time, many small businesses have embraced the technology to get more bang for their server buck and also to ...

Server virtualization technology from vendors such as VMware and Xen is causing IT managers to address management challenges related to server provisioning, patch management and disaster recovery.

What's next after server virtualization? Desktop virtualization There are a number of steps an organization could take after successfully executing a server consolidation strategy.

Unlike server virtualization, storage virtualization has yet to prove it is mature technology with clear payback, Jim Damoulakis points out in his weekly column.

While server virtualization is beneficial, it didn’t abstract storage from the virtual machine, causing inefficiencies and keeping storage provisioning a manual task.

Server virtualization is supposed to save buckets of cash, largely from server reduction. After all, consolidating some 20 physical servers to three host servers means less hardware, power and cooling ...

SDN Clubhouse ready for business :-) (Photo credit: Mark & Marie Finnern) Interop was held in New York last week, and two of the big topics of conversation were network virtualization and ...

Ariel Gorfung, CEO, Neocleus, and I had a fast paced, interesting discussion about the company's notion of "endpoint virtualization" and how that can change how organizations deploy and use desktop ...