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 following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. CIOs of modern-day data centers are concerned about elasticity, agility, end-to-end guarantees in the ...

Virtualization across all tiers is an important ingredient to cloud computing, but not the only one. Network load balancing, firewalls and chargeback are some good examples of additional components ...

Will You Gain ROI from Network Virtualization? Why is network virtualization on your radar? Are you considering micro-segmentation? Are you looking to simplify network function and operation? Use this ...

Virtualization isn’t a new concept, but now that organizations need to cope with fast-growing storage requirements and enable their administrators to manage more ...

In Jim’s 2008 edition of the “Handbook of Application Delivery,” virtualization was addressed as a meaningful trend, but, within the scope of the 140-plus page book, it was not a major theme. In Jim’s ...

OpenStack has long been portrayed as a low-cost avenue for creating private clouds without lock-in. But like many projects of its sprawl and size, it’s valuable for its subfunctions as well. In ...

Network virtualization start-up Nicira is coming out of stealth mode today and it has an impressive set of customers who evidently believe that it can disrupt the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper ...

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, ...

It may not fit easily under the Christmas tree, but a network virtualization company seems to be on every venture capital firm’s wishlist this year. The latest network virtualization company to ...