PC style virtualization, derived from IBM's zVM ideas and now supported in both AMD and Intel hardware, is a revenant of data processing's failure to adapt to the age of digital computing - an ...

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 ...

Famously, server virtualization allows a great deal of consolidation of hardware, and initially this was its biggest selling point. Using the v-word to consolidate x64 servers boosts processor ...

You don't have to jump in to server virtualization with both feet; just dipping a toe in with these open-source options will do to start.

For example, Baker referred specifically to VMware, where iSCSI makes it possible to maintain the same touch points that you have in a real environment unchanged in a virtual machine.

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 ...

Server-virtualization software imposes no constraints on the versions of Windows Server operating system (or Linux) that you place in each virtual machine (although a completely new version of ...

Vendor plans to attack the sever virtualization market with container-based and server-based technologies.

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 ...

Could a network virtualization platform be built like VMware did for compute? We explain why it's unlikely even though there is business value in doing so.

If you ask IT shops and organizations if they are using server virtualization, I’d bet that more than 90 percent would answer in the affirmative. But while most organizations are virtualizing ...

How many virtual machines can you put on a server? Depends upon whether your hardware and virtualisation environment are well-matched. This tip offers four criteria for selecting the right servers ...