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
The storage area network (SAN) is now an essential technology for many large and midsize enterprises.
Microsoft's maturing virtualization stack offers opportunities for partners with customers of all sizes, including the "S" in SMB.
- By Scott Bekker, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/01/2010
If you want to pick a fight at any gathering of IT folks today, just question the value proposition of server-virtualization products.
- By Jon William Toigo
- 01/07/2010
Yousef Khalidi talked about Microsoft's new Azure cloud services at the Interop trade show on Thursday.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/20/2009
Virtual Iron and Sun acquisitions plunge Oracle deeper into virtualization waters, but the company still lags behind the leaders.
- By Beth Schultz
- 11/01/2009
The Unified Computing System aims to be a "cloud in a box" solution. But can Cisco transition from routers to servers?
- By Mark Ferelli
- 11/01/2009
Your picks for the best in virtualization.
- By Beth Schultz
- 11/01/2009
As a software company, there's only so much green Microsoft can spread -- but Redmond is a good place to start.
The future of desktop virtualization may hinge on display protocols. VMware and Citrix take different paths: Which company is likely to win?
While most companies in IT are hoping to just ride out the recession storm, those in the virtualization space are finding clearer skies.
Bluestripe Software tackles the problem of "applications visibility" with a solution that triangulates performance between hosts, applications and VMs.
Abstracting user "personality" is an important consideration in pooled resource VDI deployments. Here's how one start-up is looking to capitalize.
Other IT segments virtualization skills is that the number of jobs is actually increasing -- and at a healthy rate.
VMware makes a play for mobile market share.
eG Innovations takes on the daunting challenge of VM performance monitoring.
The three companies are getting ready to rumble over ownership of the hypervisor cloud.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 01/01/2009
Citrix Systems' XenDesktop is a state-of-the-art product for hosted desktop virtualization and may be the gold standard by which other products are judged in a feature-for-feature comparison. Here's a look at the capabilities, options and feature sets available with this product, as well as how to install, set up and configure it in the data center.
- By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
- 01/01/2009
VMware wants to own your data center. The key? The Virtual Datacenter Operating System.
Almost no one paid attention when MS divulged details on its cloud-based Hyper-V. Here's what you need to know so far.