While IBM delivered solid results and its software and services businesses shined, the hardware business was a disappointment to many Big Blue watchers. The growing popularity of virtualization may be ...

Legacy network vendors have not embraced hardware virtualization in the same way that the server industry has embraced hardware abstraction. Large vendors have embraced either network virtualization ...

Virtualization companies, unwilling to see core products become a mere operating system feature, are signing deals to build them into hardware. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

In today’s complex IT environments, server virtualization simply makes sense. Redundant server hardware can rapidly fill enterprise datacenters to capacity; each new purchase drives up power and ...

Desktop virtualization is one of the hottest topics in technology today. CIOs are interested in exploring this technology due to the incredible success of server virtualization, but also because they ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization technology will come to Windows 8, marking the first time the software is available in both the server and desktop versions of Windows, Microsoft confirmed today.

Currently, the only thing limiting OSX Server running virtualized on generic hardware is Apple’s insistance that it only run on Apple hardware. VMWare, VirtualBox and Parallels have complied and made ...

Many of our past columns have centered on a recurring theme: increasing the value of IT without scaling cost, all while ensuring minimal risk to the business. In keeping with this theme, in this ...

It's a computing truism that when it comes to delivering the fastest possible speeds with high-performance computing (HPC), you must use native computing instead of virtualization. Recent studies have ...

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, ...