Virtualization is something that has been around for quite a long time. It has been a staple of the mainframe world for well over 30 years. It has been part of the midrange systems world for over 20 ...

A well-architected storage layer provides continuity. A new architectural reality is becoming evident where stability shifts toward the data layer.

This year it seems like every other computing news story has discussed virtualization, and if you haven’t yet got a grip on what it means, you probably feel a little left-out. Virtualization seems to ...

When a computer or an operating system uses software to do anything it normally can’t, the enabling technology tends to get labeled “virtualization.” Well, don’t believe everything you read (except ...

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 ...

Are you thinking about virtualizing your small business? It's the perfect solution to some small businesses' IT needs, but if your business is too small, virtualization is not the answer.

Virtualization is a hot topic in IT circles right now, but it's often misunderstood by many in the higher education community. The term is broad, so we’ll break it down and demystify the topic.

I have always given credit to Microsoft Visio as the reason the term “cloud computing” came to represent services provided outside the data center. Whenever the network geeks want to draw out the ...

Many IT professionals think of virtualization in terms of virtual machines (VM) and their associated hypervisors and operating-system implementations, but that only skims the surface. An increasingly ...

Virtualization is no longer just an infrastructure decision. Here's how changing costs, AI workloads, hybrid environments and platform-based operations are reshaping the choices service providers must ...

It's a computing truism that when it comes to delivering the fastest possible speeds with high-performance computing (HPC), you must use native computing instead of virtualization. Recent studies have ...