Virtualization is a hot topic in today’s demanding “get-more-for-less”business environment. Consolidating numerous computer systems so theyrun efficiently on fewer servers is a standard operating ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

As the hype about containers has mounted over the past year, it has raised questions about what this technology – which is for packaging applications – means for traditional management and ...

You would be hard-pressed not to hear an IT department talk about virtualization. When virtualization was first born, IT departments went gangbusters using this revolutionary change to get better ...

In the "old days," office workers used what were called "dumb terminals" – dumb in that the devices were simply conduits to applications and information stored on mainframe computers. Then, mainframes ...

A term that I've been hearing more frequently in the past few months is "desktop virtualization." What does that mean anyway? It seems to me that this could be the use of any one of several different ...

The virtualization models for clients are, arguably, more diverse than those for servers. For servers there are essentially two, the earlier model of static consolidation and the more recent dynamic ...

At least that seems to be the thinking over at SWsoft, which is improving its Virtuozzo container-based server virtualization technology while readying the beta release of a new hypervisor-based ...

One of the big questions in technology for the last three years has been how end users will adopt desktop virtualization. The answer, at least from some early adopters, seems to be “how won’t we do it ...

WRENTHAM, MA--(Marketwire - Sep 26, 2012) - Today The Virtualization Practice, an industry analyst firm that provides unique analysis, commentary and resources on Virtualization and Cloud Computing, ...

Today, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle VM Server for x86 Release 3.1, the latest release of Oracle's server virtualization solution designed to support rapid application deployment and ...