To fulfill the promise of big data, you need to abstract data from its underpinnings -- at both the data and infrastructure layers Big data in the cloud has so many potential functional service layers ...

There are four major steps on the road to a flexible data center: consolidation, standardization, virtualization and utility. There are four major steps on the road to a flexible data center: ...

After spending $1.8 billion over the last five years on R&D and acquisitions, Citrix Software has brought together the parts needed to virtualize IT data centers from the desktop and server all the ...

Business today moves faster than ever—and it’s driven by massive amounts of data to inform, enhance and accelerate decisions that can make or break a company. Data virtualization has played a pivotal ...

Virtualization has had a beneficial impact on data centers for years, changing the way organizations run and manage their servers, desktops and infrastructure management. It's probably the single most ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Data integration company Safe Software Inc. today announced two major additions to its FME Platform that are aimed at bringing easier data access and spatial intelligence to the forefront of ...

Visa is looking for a few good people to run its next-generation data centers. In July, the electronic payments company posted a job listing on the Data Center Job Board for a senior facilities ...

If you haven't heard Simon Crosby, Founder and CTO of XenSource, speak before, you might want to consider signing up for this Webinar. I've heard him speak a few times at various forum events, and ...

Gartner’s 27th annual data center conference is producing no shortage of research related to energy consumption, virtualization, cloud computing and other hot enterprise topics. Here are some of the ...