Virtualization has gotten into many nooks and crannies of IT infrastructure, but some of the available vendor technology is half-baked, according to a recent report from Forrester Research Inc.

SWsoft, a provider of both operating system and hardware virtualization products, has an interesting whitepaper titled "Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology". This ...

Fewer and fewer IT organizations are asking whether they should virtualize systems. The focus is now on how should they leverage virtualization in their environment. The maturation of virtualization ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor With virtualization now a mainstream technology for most large businesses, the big players like EMC (VMWare), IBM and Microsoft are investing heavily in proprietary options for ...

This course examines the theory and practice behind the virtualization technologies that play an increasingly important role in the modern computing landscape. While virtualization has a distinguished ...

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; President: Masashi Nagayasu) has been actively promoting the global adoption and industry-wide standardization of ...

AMD made real its virtualization technology as the chip maker unveiled its “Pacifica” specification, a computer processor design aimed at enhancing virtualization with 64-bit servers and other clients ...

True device virtualization allows resources to be allocated to tasks, or applications. We looked at four different primitives that virtualize the forwarding paths on switches or routers: VLAN and VFI ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft added the hypercall API for the Viridian hypervisor to the Open Specification Promise, a designation aimed at encouraging third party development which applies to a handful of ...

Today’s enterprise challenges demand near real-time access to data. While that seems to be a must, the application ecosystem continues to present a growing array of data persistence options, such as ...

Here are Part I, Part II,and Part III,, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, and Part IX. Data-path virtualization essentially creates multiple separate logical networks over a single, ...

It looks like Sun Microsystems is gearing up to go after Linux as it announced a series of product and strategic updates to its Solaris 10 operating system due out this summer. The company is adding a ...