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 ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. CIOs of modern-day data centers are concerned about elasticity, agility, end-to-end guarantees in the ...

The network team is being bombarded with configuration requests that can take days or weeks to handle, but luckily several approaches are emerging that promise to increase network agility, chief among ...

VMware, Citrix / Xensource, Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat / Xensource and others are slogging it out to be the virtualization product of choice. Some losers, like Oracle VM, seem pretty obvious right now ...

VMware’s big splash in software-defined networking with its NSX network hypervisor comes with partnerships already in place to flesh out its virtual networks. On Monday, as VMware formally announced ...

VMware, as part of its campaign to extend its virtualization tentacles beyond the server, is rolling out a channel program for emerging technologies like NSX network virtualization and VSAN storage.

Hypervisors, also known as virtual machine monitors (VMMs), are software that create and run virtual machines (VMs). They allow a single physical computer to support multiple VMs by sharing resources ...

Virtualization is an essential component for any IT outfit looking torun an efficient, manageable, waste-not-want-not shop. It’s not justa tool for large call centers with big server farms. Evensmall- ...