I've got to give BLADE Network Technologies (the self-styled data center Ethernet switching company), Solarflare Communications (the leading provider of 10GbE silicon) and Cloudsoft Corporation (a ...

Virtualization giant VMware is partnering with market-leading public cloud provider Amazon Web Services to offer a version of VMware’s virtualization technology as a service. Dubbed VMware Cloud on ...

Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced new servers that come pre-configured with Microsoft software to help companies deploy virtualized workloads more quickly. HP’s VirtualSystem for Microsoft includes ...

For many IT managers, moving your company’s backbone to the cloud brings a certain sense of freedom. However, the task of caring for and protecting your assets remains. After all, the operative word ...

How much of an organization’s IT capabilities – including processors, storage and network – can be virtualized and moved into the cloud? Quite a bit, according to Craig Mathias, principal at advisory ...

Two of the hottest IT technologies in 2010 are virtualization and cloud computing. Both are heavily evangelized in the industry as the “wave of the future” and the “next big thing.” This is primarily ...

The virtualization models for clients are, arguably, more diverse than those for servers. For servers there are essentially two, the earlier model of static consolidation and the more recent dynamic ...

(1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions (separate "virtual machines") within a single server. Widely used in enterprise and cloud computing datacenters, each virtual machine (VM) ...

In this cloud-centric world, physical servers have settled into the background. Today, it's all about on-demand services where you contract with another company to manage your servers, usually in some ...

Cloud computing is all about creating virtualized compute resources that we can tap into and use from anywhere, often from a mobile device. But virtualization existed long before the notion of cloud ...