Despite the broad adoption of server virtualization, many firms still struggle with the technical and organizational changes that virtualization brings. We see IT shops facing three major challenges: ...

Server virtualization through the use of software products such as VMware has been implemented to varying degrees in corporate IT, with some successful and some not-so-successful outcomes. This year, ...

Network virtualization for the data center promises to improve service agility, simplify network operations, and reduce capital expenditures. One of the biggest challenges for IT professionals is to ...

A new study from Saugatuck Technology says server virtualization will have the single largest impact on budgets for IT hardware and support through 2010. The survey, titled "The Many Faces of ...

Managing disk storage was once simple: If we needed more space, we got a bigger disk drive. But data storage needs grew, so we started adding multiple disk drives. Finding and managing these became ...

I’ve spoken at various times in this space about the benefits of virtualization. Recently I was presenting at a technical education event sponsored by the mega-distributor TechData, and the gentleman ...

Endpoint virtualization is quickly becoming an exciting area in information technology, and Symantec's October 2008 survey has some interesting key findings about the technology. Endpoint ...

Virtualization is being driven deeper into data centers to tie together converged storage, compute, and networking hardware resources. Recent SDxCentral survey results reveal several key trends in ...

As demand for data grows, time-to-value must be shortened. With current approaches slow and costly, agencies should leverage data virtualization to create data products that can be governed in one ...

A virtual machine is a computing resource that uses software instead of a physical computer to run programs and deploy applications. It operates by running one or more virtual “guest” machines on a ...

But Windows Server 2008 R2 has the potential to shape Microsoft's business in more far-reaching ways than Windows 7, and could finally put Microsoft on equal footing with competitors in a ...