The future of technology always has roots in the past. And the past is indeed long in the case of virtualization, a technology that is reshaping today’s IT industry and will likely play a huge role in ...

Not long ago server virtualization was IT’s New World, inhabited by a relatively few courageous souls who dared to break the framework of one server per application and one application to server. The ...

Another thought about virtualisation - following my last blog, I started to think about mainframes. Should the mainframe be an option when considering virtualisation projects? I'd argue that the ...

Who can explain desktop virtualisation? When it comes to desktop virtualisation, there's too much hype and not enough explanation. That's the message coming across loud and clear from sources as ...

For regional IT managers and CIOs building or upgrading their datacentre, the virtualisation buzz has risen from a background hum to a full fledged roar, threatening to engulf all technology ...

The virtualisation market is facing a reckoning. For years, businesses have tolerated complexity in their infrastructure because the alternatives felt too risky or disruptive, but that is changing ...

It’s clear that virtualization is taking over every function of the technology infrastructure: Compute, storage, and networking are being converted to software-defined anything (SDx) platforms to ...

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 ...

Virtualization, the process of abstracting physical hardware by creating multiple virtual machines (VMs) with independent operating systems and tasks, has been in computing since the 1960s. Now, with ...