On Wednesday, Microsoft added the hypercall API for the Viridian hypervisor to the Open Specification Promise, a designation aimed at encouraging third party development which applies to a handful of ...

When you think virtualization, you likely think of VMware. But there are plenty of other sever virtualization options available to solution providers, according to the 2009 CRN Channel Contenders ...

Rather than starting with server virtualization and looking up the technology stack, Oracle starts at the business application and looks down. In this way, Oracle can align its portfolio of business ...

Server virtualization may be enterprise computing’s latest technology, but a recent survey of corporate IT buyers shows that near-term adoption may not match the hype. According to an August survey of ...

Many of our past columns have centered on a recurring theme: increasing the value of IT without scaling cost, all while ensuring minimal risk to the business. In keeping with this theme, in this ...

Server virtualization is hotter than hot, ignited by the technology’s use in creating a more compact, highly flexible and cost-efficient server infrastructure. Survey results from Forrester Research, ...

SWsoft, a provider of both operating system and hardware virtualization products, has an interesting whitepaper titled "Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology". This ...

Thinking outside the box is overrated, says the OpenVZ group; its server virtualization technology lets you create mini networks of virtual machines inside a single large physical server. But what if ...

Even Microsoft, however reluctantly, has now accepted the trend towards embedded hypervisors even while it simultaneously tries to keep as much control over its own destiny as possible. Gordon Haff is ...

In my humble opinion, server virtualization technology is at a tipping point. Yes, we’ve squeezed a lot of value out of it to consolidate Windows server workloads but future “dynamic virtual ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When Stephen Bakerman joined Owen Bird Law Corp., in Vancouver, British Columbia, nearly nine years ago, the IT infrastructure was a ...