When a computer or an operating system uses software to do anything it normally can’t, the enabling technology tends to get labeled “virtualization.” Well, don’t believe everything you read (except ...

What every IT generalist needs to know before deploying GPU workloads, and why the platform matters more than the hardware.

What to do? The newspaper reversed course. Rather than deploy more servers, it has spent the past 14 months eliminating them by morphing single-purpose servers into virtual machines within host ...

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 ...

SUSE and Cloudbase promise zero-downtime migrations off VMware, but whether enterprises are ready to move is another question ...

The discussion rages on. Where should a company use virtualization storage solutions? It started on the server, which gave us freedom of storage devices but ate up too many CPU cycles. Next, ...

While network virtualization is a key technology, the vendor space is crowded. "With the Big Four leading the charge in data center virtualization, the pressure for startups to get deals done or merge ...

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 infrastructure virtualization trend in many industries today involves a bottom-up approach. Savings are gained by virtualizing the infrastructure under an application – the servers, storage and so ...

Citrix Systems, EMC's VMware unit, Microsoft, Symantec, and other big dogs have shelled out more than $2 billion on acquisitions related todesktop virtualization in less than two years. But now that ...

Virtualization – it’s just a word. But in storage circles, this word can evoke a wide range of emotions, from hyper-excitement over the endless possibilities, to downright annoyance over its true ...

Hibernation lets you save the current state of a virtual machine to the operating system disk, allowing seamless restoration when needed. However, we’ve observed that in certain setups, especially ...