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 ...

Recently a client asked me to write a whitepaper about IP address management. At first the assignment seemed completely routine. But as I began looking at the details I realized that I was going to ...

If there’s one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it’s virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...

While the advantages of virtualization are widely acknowledged with regard to servers, desktops and storage devices, this is also leading military organizations to examine how virtualization can be ...

While virtual servers have proven a boon in the data center, they don’t address the challenge of incrementally adding server capacity and automatically distributing load across them. As a result, the ...

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.

Virtualizati0n and cloud computing provider VMware has performed well in the network virtualization domain, which it ventured into relatively recently. The company launched the VMware NSX in late 2013 ...

Virtualization has its roots in the mainframe era of the 1960s, and is particularly associated with IBM, whose CP-67/CMS was the first commercial mainframe operating system to support a virtual ...

It doesn't have to be this way. Using virtual-machine technology, you can split one high-powered server into several virtual slices. This way, each slice has its own partitioned-off operating system, ...

Microsoft recently described a number of improvements to expect with its R2 version of Windows Server 2012, which may arrive as a public preview release next week. The "customer preview" of Windows ...

(1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions (separate "virtual machines") within a single server. Widely used in enterprise and cloud computing datacenters, each virtual machine (VM) ...

Intel Corp. has integrated virtual radio access network acceleration into its latest 4th Gen Intel Xeon system-on-chip, helping network operators gear up their efforts to deliver cloud-native features ...