We've been watching the industry, as a whole, move from a focus on physical system performance, reliability, availability, cost, power consumption or some other attribute, to speaking about how ...

Virtualization companies, unwilling to see core products become a mere operating system feature, are signing deals to build them into hardware. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

2005 was a training year for the x86 virtualization race just around the corner, or rather, the quarter. At present, virtualization is primarily associated with carving one physical computer into ...

The growth of the server virtualization software market is driven by the rising demand for efficient IT infrastructure, cost optimization, and improved resource utilization across enterprises.

From energy savings to reducing vendor lock-in to improving disaster recovery planning, here are 10 ways that server virtualization has changed the data center. Server virtualization on the x86 ...

Many of our past columns have centered on a recurring theme: increasing the value of IT without scaling cost, all while ensuring minimal risk to the business. In keeping with this theme, in this ...

Server virtualization has been a real "game changer" for the datacenter and those who administer and manage it. It has provided us with efficiency at a time when we so desperately need it.

In our recent research benchmark on data centers, Nemertes Research discovered many different approaches to server virtualization. Some companies are combining virtualization with blade servers in a ...

Virtualization is an easy sell: Who wouldn’t want to turn underutilized physical servers into a humming little farm of virtual servers you can spin up or down at the drop of a hat? The dirty little ...

It's a computing truism that when it comes to delivering the fastest possible speeds with high-performance computing (HPC), you must use native computing instead of virtualization. Recent studies have ...

The virtualization of operating systems began many years ago as a means to test applications across multiple platforms without having to build dedicated machines or even leave the developers desktop.