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 ...

InfoWorld's Test Center staff has selected six virtualization products for InfoWorld's 2009 Technology of the Year Awards. And it looks like VMware is continuing a trend. My hat goes off to the ...

Ed Harnish, vice president of marketing at Acronis, a Burlington, Mass.-based storage management vendor, offered 10 tips for deploying virtualization software before hundreds of IT pros and solution ...

Note: The following column originally appeared in Amkai’s May newsletter.The English language has witnessed a major expansion as a result of the need for new terms related to technology. Interestingly ...

Virtualization has had a beneficial impact on data centers for years, changing the way organizations run and manage their servers, desktops and infrastructure management. It's probably the single most ...

Virtualization appeals to IT executives looking to maximize data-center operations, but they must answer 10 difficult questions before they have a chance to successfully roll virtualization out, a ...

VMware, which created x86 server virtualization and is the dominant player in the market, is absolutely on fire. When EMC bought the company in 2003, VMware revenues were around $100 million a year.

The contrast between virtualization in the data center, discussed in my previous No Jitter post, and virtualization in the WAN is interesting. We've had WAN virtualization, in the form of VLANs and ...

Virtualization and hypervisors offer a way out. By replacing physically separate platforms with virtual machines (VMs), ...

What about storage virtualization? What about desktop virtualization? What about application virtualization? What about virtualizing all your data-center hardware including Unix boxes and mainframes?