Everyone in IT circles understands the appeal of virtualized servers. Having a virtualized data center transforms IT assets into more agile, efficient and scalable solutions. A single physical server ...

I have been very interested in virtualization security since early 2004 and it now seems like it has become a mainstream topic. Most of the focus however is on securing the technology of ...

In this newsletter, we will continue that discussion by talking about some of the specific WAN challenges that are associated with server virtualization. Previously, we mentioned that when IT ...

The trend of virtualization is one of the most powerful forces in technology. Using data abstraction and control, the functions of compute, networking, and storage are being virtualized to create a ...

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa, July 12, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — TeamQuest Corporation published study results that identify three majorchallenges associated with virtualization and server consolidation accordingto IT ...

Part 1 of this five-part series defines virtualization; Part 2 takes a look at the business drivers for virtualization; and Part 3 examines the challenges enterprises face when they virtualize their ...

Virtualization is making data centers more flexible and efficient, but the technology is also raising new challenges, IT managers say. Consolidating onto fewer physical servers is one of the ...

There appears to be a challenger to ‘VM sprawl’ as the scourge of virtualization success — a problem I call ‘VM stall’. We know about ‘VM sprawl’ — because new virtual machines are so easy to deploy, ...

As the mainstream continues to adopt virtualization into their IT environments, the question of IT security still comes up. In fact, some worry that security might even pose a bigger problem within a ...

That's the take of XenSource vice president of marketing John Bara. Looking around the stage he was sharing with those same vendors, Bara hedged, intimating that so far, everyone's been playing nice ...

There appears to be a challenger to 'VM sprawl' as the scourge of virtualization success -- a problem I call 'VM stall'. We know about 'VM sprawl' -- because new virtual machines are so easy to deploy ...