perspective On the face of it, the significant increases in the power of processors is a good thing. Roughly every two years, a new generation of chips doubles processor counts through a combination ...

Unified computing architectures focused on hosting virtualized workloads will change the way data centers are provisioned--and as a result will change who runs them. James Urquhart is a field ...

In the post Why do organizations adopt virtualization technology?, I tried to present some of the goals organizations have discussed for why they embarked on the journey to a virtualized environment ...

It’s hard to ignore the clamor inside and outside of government circles for agencies to harness data more effectively. One of underlying lessons revealed thus far by the ongoing pandemic has been the ...

It’s clear that virtualization is taking over every function of the technology infrastructure: Compute, storage, and networking are being converted to software-defined anything (SDx) platforms to ...

The contrast between virtualization in the data center, discussed in my previous No Jitter post, and virtualization in the WAN is interesting. We've had WAN virtualization, in the form of VLANs and ...

With VMworld 2010 this week, and in particular VMware’s own strategic cloud infrastructure announcements, start-ups and longtime IT fixtures alike are clamoring to get the word out that they’ve got ...

Q: I saw you speak at a Brocade event in Washington last week where you discussed an overall “enterprise infrastructure virtualization” strategy. During your talk, you quickly (there wasn’t enough ...

In many data centers, virtualization has stalled. The culprit: complexity. Look to automated data center management tools to keep forward progress. The benefits of virtualization are well known.

Ransomware groups are targeting hypervisors to maximize impact, allowing a single breach to encrypt dozens of virtual ...

So I've been thinking about this fora while and if your business requires a web server, a file server, an email server, a DNS server, a DHCP server, etc etc etc and they are all hosted on various ...

Fortunately, some very smart people are already thinking about how to solve these dicey problems. The good folks at the Distributed Management Task Force recently published a standard called the Open ...