Users and vendors address the unique problems, and opportunities, involved in virtual servers with NAC-like functions and IPS-firewall appliances from such vendors as ConSentry Networks, Reflex ...

What is virtualization anyway? This five-part series on a trend that is reaching into every corner of the technology landscape addresses that fundamental question, along with many of the complex ...

If you ask IT shops and organizations if they are using server virtualization, I’d bet that more than 90 percent would answer in the affirmative. But while most organizations are virtualizing, many ...

Barb Goldworm is the founder and president of Focus Consulting, a research and consulting firm in Boulder, Colo., that concentrates on systems and storage. She also is the conference chair of the ...

Engaging in a server consolidation project is no easy task. It's not easy no matter how much research you've put into it. Converting physical systems to virtual systems is the least of your ...

Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although the opinions expressed here are strictly his own. He's focused on enterprise IT, especially cloud computing. However, Gordon writes about a wide ...