When it comes to infrastructure and operations, research firm Gartner says that virtualization will be the most significant trend through the next four years.
According to a recent study by Dublin-based Research and Markets released today, virtualization and virtualization-related services spending will reach $1.35 billion (U.S.) by 2010.
Virtualization technology imposes costs and management stress on datacenter managers in addition to boosting the complexity of installations, according to senior IT managers. But those same executives also have learned that overcoming virtualization headaches ushers in a brave new world of datacenter performance.
- By Wilson P. Dizard III
- 04/02/2008
AMD, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based CPU chipmaker, announced its collaboration efforts with Microsoft leading up to Microsoft's big launch yesterday.
Redmond officially rolls out Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in Los Angeles event.
Double-Take Software has released Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure 3.0, a software solution that protects virtual machines running on VMware ESX Server, a component of the VMware Infrastructure software suite
- By James E. Powell
- 02/26/2008
Today at VMworld Europe in Cannes, France, VMware announced that within the next 60 days ESX 3i hypervisor will ship embedded in servers from its partners Dell, IBM, HP and Fujitsu-Siemens.
IBM today announced the debut of its new System z10 mainframe computer for enterprise data centers.
Here's how you can back up files inside running Virtual Server VMs.
Open source developer XAware announced earlier this month that the latest version of its data integration platform, XAware 5.0, is now live
One of the great things about virtualization is that it makes it incredibly easy to add a new server -- or 10, or 100 new servers.
Citrix CEO Mark Templeton says his company's acquisition of virtualization vendor XenSource has created a fast-growing joint channel for partners as well.
Although 54 percent of large enterprises around the globe rate management of their virtual server environment as a critical or high IT priority, fewer than half (45 percent) think their companies are doing it effectively, according to CA's global survey about virtualized environments released this week.
- By James E. Powell
- 02/21/2008
Sun Microsystems yesterday announced plans to purchase German software developer innotek, the maker of VirtualBox, a set of open source x86 virtualization tools for home and enterprise users.
The second Alfresco Open Source Barometer survey found a general trend toward the use of mixed open source and proprietary software in the enterprise.
A global enterprise virtualization survey released today confirms that virtualization is becoming stronger and stronger in the enterprise, with server virtualization leading the wave.
Microsoft reversed an earlier decision that would have forced IT pros to wait until mid-March to get their hands on Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
Late last week, Canonical Ltd. announced that Ubuntu users will now be able to access the Parallels Workstation virtualization software through the Ubuntu Partner Repository.
Citrix today formally announced Citrix XenServer 4.1 and Citrix XenServer Platinum Edition.
Virtualization took center stage again last week, as both IBM and Sun unveiled ambitious new virtual offerings
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/07/2008