One of the primary drawbacks to using virtualization for server consolidation is that it dramatically reduces the number of points of failure in the datacenter, so that security breach or a hardware ...

Big Blue plans to provide essential plumbing for its utility computing vision later this year, when it debuts technology that uses its Power5 chip. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

IBM has built software into its servers that allows corporate IT departments and hosting companies to charge for computing based on usage, the same way utilities such as gas and electricity are ...

IBM is poised to ship two data storage virtualization products in July, the latest step in the industry?s push to squeeze more productivity out of storage systems. Big Blue on Tuesday will announce a ...

Recently, Inna Kuznetsova, Vice President, IBM Systems Software, presented a webinar about the changing economics of virtualization. When IBM speaks about virtualization technology, I always find time ...

IBM introduced a new release of its server virtualization management software that adds new automation capabilities for the management of both virtual and physical systems across multiple platforms.

The result of a three-year research effort, Virtualization Engine (VE) will ship on some IBM eServer systems as early as next month, said Tim Dougherty, manager of the Armonk, N.Y.-based computer ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. IBM is preparing to ramp up its virtualization ...

, we believe IBM's brand recognition and large network of business partners will help its easy-to-use and well-priced product to gain share in the desktop virtualization market. We currently have a ...

The deal, announced at a conference in Cambridge, Mass., seemed a slap in the face to IBM rival EMC, based just miles away in Hopkinton, Mass. IBM said that Cisco fields an all-EMC storage pool, but ...

Longtime computing giant IBM has confirmed its intentions to acquire privately owned California-based Transitive Corp. The news comes at a significant time as Transitive and IBM collectively try to ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. In the companys ongoing effort to expand its blade ...