Precipitated by the much-hyped debut of new multi-core chip architectures and an increased focus on energy savings, the concept of server virtualization software has evolved in recent months to become ...

Virtualization helps overcome the limitations of traditional test systems. By consolidating multiple PCs into a single solution, the system becomes more compact, cost-efficient, and yet powerful.

Virtualization is a hot topic in IT circles right now, but it's often misunderstood by many in the higher education community. The term is broad, so we’ll break it down and demystify the topic.

Many IT professionals think of virtualization in terms of virtual machines (VM) and their associated hypervisors and operating-system implementations, but that only skims the surface. An increasingly ...

There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed ...

As the networking industry is being transformed by the next-generation virtualization approach called software-defined networking (SDN), the complementary architectural concept of network functions ...

Editor’s note: In this, the first of Peter H. Salus’s articles, he explains virtualization with an unusual metaphor, puts it in historical context, and suggests some often-overlooked benefits.

The future of virtualization in the corporate data center is firmly established, but questions about the value of virtualization beyond that world remain as fuzzy as the future of many-core systems.

In the first two parts of this series, we explored how workload consolidation delivers benefits such as reduced costs and streamlined development. We also explained how integrated solution platforms ...