Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

Telecom and internet service providers have turned to faster networking technology—whether it be 5G, DOCSIS 4.0 or fiber-optic cables—to boost sales and profitability. But even with these new network ...

While the advantages of virtualization are widely acknowledged with regard to servers, desktops and storage devices, this is also leading military organizations to examine how virtualization can be ...

In 2014, companies and open source programmers alike are working as hard as they can to virtualize hardware into software. The latest example of this is Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The ...

While system virtualization — and to a lesser extent, desktop virtualization — has held most of the virtualization limelight, there is also a growing trend in network virtualization. Most of you in ...

Deploying and managing networks at a higher level of abstraction using network virtualization software is a now prerequisite for most IT organizations. For Deluxe, a printer of checks and other ...

The contrast between virtualization in the data center, discussed in my previous No Jitter post, and virtualization in the WAN is interesting. We've had WAN virtualization, in the form of VLANs and ...

Virtualization is software that separates a run-time process from the underlying infrastructure that supports the process. Server virtualization, for instance, separates the application from the ...

In the last newsletter we discussed the impending perfect storm in which IT organizations implement three key initiatives, each of which are extremely beneficial, and yet end up in a place where for ...

Next generation datacenters are evolving quickly. Bandwidth growth and the need for scalability appears to be unstoppable, yet network designs must find a way to manage these demand costs effectively.