Part 1 of this five-part series defines the various types of virtualization. This installment looks at the business reasons for virtualizing your IT system. How will virtualization contribute to your ...

In Part 1 of this five-part series, we define virtualization; in Part 2, we look at the business drivers for virtualization. Now we will look at the challenges enterprises face when they virtualize ...

Server virtualization does, however, create some significant challenges. One of these challenges is that in a typical setting servers are connected by a switch and there is management functionality ...

IP contact centers can benefit from virtualization as much as any other technology, but because of the real-time nature and need for reliability, deploying virtual machines in this environment ...

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 ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Thanks to on-going increases in processor performance, the number of Virtual Machines per server blade is ...

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 ...

The storage infrastructure that supports a virtualized server environment can quickly become a roadblock to expansion. As the project grows, server virtualization places new performance and scaling ...

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, ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

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 ...