You might say that geeks are naturally disposed toward virtualization. In the early years of virtualization's adoption, you would've been correct.
For infrastructure administrators, there has always been a gray area where the infrastructure stops and the application teams take over.
- By Rick Vanover
- 03/01/2010
Editor in Chief Bruce Hoard sits down with Soni Jiandani, VP of marketing, Storage Technology Group, at Cisco Systems Inc.
Early in my editorial career, I'd occasionally cross paths with a well-known, well-connected and highly paid consultant who once declared, "Once the trade press stops writing about a technology, users start to use it."
The concept of private clouds provides a lot of promise, but the technology is not inexpensive. Here's what vendors can actually offer today-and how much it will cost.
- By Eric Beehler
- 03/01/2010
Since becoming editor in chief of Virtualization Review in October, I've discovered that, from a journalistic perspective, there's a lot to like about virtualization because the industry -- if not the baseline technology -- is new and emerging.
The storage area network (SAN) is now an essential technology for many large and midsize enterprises.
Despite a depressed market for servers, Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2 appears to have propelled a rebound in volume x86-based systems
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/26/2010
A study released Thursday found that at least some IT projects that have been shelved are back on companies' drawing boards.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/25/2010
CA on Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire closely held 3tera Inc. for an undisclosed sum.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/24/2010
Bob Muglia's talk at a Goldman Sachs technology event on Tuesday was chock full of forward-looking statements.
Microsoft unveiled two new desktop virtualization applications as part of its bundle of tools for managing Windows 7 deployments.
Iron Mountain on Monday said it has acquired e-mail and SharePoint archiving solutions provider Mimosa Systems for $112 million.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/22/2010
Microsoft released a new version of its Windows Azure Service Management (WASM) Cmdlets for PowerShell last week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/22/2010
In move that is likely to escalate the rivalry between two former partners, Cisco on Friday said it is cutting ties with Hewlett-Packard Co.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/19/2010
Microsoft confirmed that rootkit malware is causing "blue screens of death" for some users who applied a Windows security patch.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/18/2010
Redmond is once again looking into chatter about Microsoft security patches causing "screens of death."
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/12/2010
SAP announced last week that its enterprise infrastructure software is now supported by Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2.
The release candidate build of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 is available this week.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 02/09/2010
Microsoft's February security update marks another notable Patch Tuesday, with 13 patches addressing more than 26 vulnerabilities.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 02/09/2010