perspective The initial interest in virtualization was on pure-play server consolidation and its corresponding savings on capital expenditure and management. Now, organizations are looking to take ...

Companies in the utilities industries face many challenges today. They are responsible for meeting government and private renewable energy goals and priorities, which vary state by state. They need to ...

Virtualization is mainly used in the IT environment and server rooms, but many utilities are exploring how to use virtualization without compromising on performance, availability, and reliability of ...

Few technologies are more confusing than storage virtualization. Unlike server virtualization, whose basic concept is defined as running multiple OS instances on a single physical server, storage ...

Virtualization, the process of abstracting physical hardware by creating multiple virtual machines (VMs) with independent operating systems and tasks, has been in computing since the 1960s. Now, with ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

Not long ago server virtualization was IT’s New World, inhabited by a relatively few courageous souls who dared to break the framework of one server per application and one application to server. The ...

How storage virtualization technologies allow you to keep pace with ever-increasing storage requirements while maintaining high availability and service levels In just a few short years, storage ...

It is a widely held misconception that in order to fully make use of the performance available with multicore processors, virtualization in the form of a hypervisor must be used, along with a ...

How storage virtualization technologies allow you to keep pace with ever-increasing storage requirements while maintaining high availability and service levels In just a few short years, storage ...

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 ...