Server virtualization offers a host of efficiencies, but storage administrators say it may open a can of worms on the storage side. Resulting headaches can include huge I/O bottlenecks for primary and ...

As virtualization becomes more pervasive across the data center, and more tier-one and tier-two applications are migrated off physical hosts and onto virtual server platforms, the tight integration ...

Server virtualization technologies for Linux have advanced at a rapid pace of innovation with VMware and Citrix (Xen) initially leading the way. They are now being joined by significant strategic ...

According to EMC CEO Joe Tucci, the acquisition is intended to hasten the convergence of server and storage virtualization. According to VMware, the acquisition provides its 370 employees with access ...

Some people see virtualization as a hindrance to performance with no place in HPC. Other people see it as the future of accessibility in HPC, opening up new modes of parallel computing for a ...

N etwork-Attached Storage systems may seem like something only a data hoarder would require, but they’re just as useful for ...

The initial approach to storage virtualization, which has been around for years, was to address it in the storage-area network because the SAN sat between the storage and servers, and would cause the ...

Server virtualization can help fight server sprawl, make better use of compute power, curb energy bills, and improve data-center agility and flexibility. Server virtualization is one of those ...

Virtualization has its roots in the mainframe era of the 1960s, and is particularly associated with IBM, whose CP-67/CMS was the first commercial mainframe operating system to support a virtual ...

Symantec is updating its line of backup products and releasing a virtualization package combining the vendor’s own storage management software with Citrix’s Xen hypervisor. Symantec’s Veritas Virtual ...

Microsoft recently described a number of improvements to expect with its R2 version of Windows Server 2012, which may arrive as a public preview release next week. The "customer preview" of Windows ...

In 2001, VMware delivered its first virtualization products for x86 servers, setting off what has become one of today’s biggest tech trends. But the benefits of virtualization, particularly its ...