About three years ago Host.net, a collocation and managed service provider, decided it was going to fully embrace the cloud as a new suite of offerings for customers. When migrating to the new service ...

Technologies like hypervisors, containers, and virtual machines (VMs) can make this task easier by providing isolation ...

What is virtualization anyway? This five-part series on a trend that is reaching into every corner of the technology landscape addresses that fundamental question, along with many of the complex ...

One type of virtualization is server virtualization, where multiple virtual servers are run out of one physical server, reducing costs and space constraints. — Getty Images/Westend61 Virtualization is ...

I noted last month that embedding the code for server virtualization directly into the hardware, something called an embedded hypervisor, hasn't taken off to any significant degree. Rather, most IT ...

Server virtualization has been around a long time, has come to different classes of machines and architectures over the decades to drive efficiency increases, and has seemingly reached a level of ...

VMware may be expanding into thin provisioning and virtualized storage, but DataCore Software has been at this now for 10 years As the hypervisor continues to reach commodity, companies like VMware ...

Desktop hypervisors offer companies a way to run multiple operating systems, and the applications tied to them, on a single client machine. Common use cases would be support staff, help desk and ...

Server virtualization technologies for Linux have advanced at a rapid pace of innovation with VMware and Citrix (Xen) initially leading the way. They are now being joined by significant strategic ...

Commentary--The buzz around the storage world today is virtualization, how customers--large and small--can maximize their storage infrastructures by taking advantage of virtual storage solutions ...