While IBM delivered solid results and its software and services businesses shined, the hardware business was a disappointment to many Big Blue watchers. The growing popularity of virtualization may be ...

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 ...

Legacy network vendors have not embraced hardware virtualization in the same way that the server industry has embraced hardware abstraction. Large vendors have embraced either network virtualization ...

Server virtualization, have you ever heard of it? You’d be surprised how important it is and how much it is used around the world. Now, since not a lot of people have knowledge of server ...

In today’s complex IT environments, server virtualization simply makes sense. Redundant server hardware can rapidly fill enterprise datacenters to capacity; each new purchase drives up power and ...

Virtualization complicates the process of finding and remedying hardware problems, but a few techniques and tools can make the process more manageable. Although it's usually easy to troubleshoot ...

Desktop virtualization is one of the hottest topics in technology today. CIOs are interested in exploring this technology due to the incredible success of server virtualization, but also because they ...

Should Dell, HP, and IBM strive to be the single-pane-of-glass management tool in a virtual environment, or just plug into VMware vCenter? Despite claims that server virtualization makes everything ...

I keep hearing that virtualization will save money in hardware and power, because it increases server utilization and can be used to consolidate servers, but how much do you need to spend on initial ...

Currently, the only thing limiting OSX Server running virtualized on generic hardware is Apple’s insistance that it only run on Apple hardware. VMWare, VirtualBox and Parallels have complied and made ...

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 ...

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 ...