Virtualization, lately the “it” thing in information technology, comes in many forms and flavors. It’s really best thought of as shorthand for separating hardware and software and thereby achieving ...

Virtualization projects can help organizations improve key business metrics, but with these benefits also come risks that these projects could cause issues with end-user experience, visibility into ...

Storage virtualization is a tricky business, and it is not without its inherent problems. However, containerized storage is showing great promise in reducing or eliminating many of the problems ...

Virtualization systems aren’t quite as compatible with, and transparent to, applications as Gibbs thought they were. Also GrandCentral accounts and disposable telephone numbers. Following my recent ...

EMC's new network management tools could help VMware users with a common virtualization management headache: shining light on the root cause of problems when you're not sure if they started in your ...

Davis describes flaws with using the same physical storage techniques and virtualization problems such as VM I/O blender, VM storage bloat, and backup, cluster scalability As more and more people ...

Application performance management (APM) software provider Precise has announced the availability of Precise 9.5, a major product release designed to help organizations deliver a better experience for ...

86 percent of data center managers say they're fighting to find virtualization experts and other specialists, new research shows. And 60 percent call their current staff skill set too narrow. IT ...