Virtualization will become dominant in enterprises, but the security risks are fuzzy at best. Meanwhile, the usual defense--firewalls, security appliances and such aren't ready for virtualization.

A term that I've been hearing more frequently in the past few months is "desktop virtualization." What does that mean anyway? It seems to me that this could be the use of any one of several different ...

Depending on whom you talk to, desktop virtualization is either the hottest trend in IT or an expensive notion with limited appeal Desktop virtualization harks back to the good old mainframe days of ...

Server virtualization, have you ever heard of it? You’d be surprised how important it is and how much it is used around the world. Now, since not a lot of people have knowledge of server ...

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.

How much of an organization’s IT capabilities – including processors, storage and network – can be virtualized and moved into the cloud? Quite a bit, according to Craig Mathias, principal at advisory ...

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.

If there’s one thing that marketing departments in tech companies around the world are unbelievably good at, it’s taking the newest and hottest technology terms and diluting them to the point that ...

As you know if you’ve been reading this column for the last several weeks, I believe that we’re at the dawn of a NEW architecture that will revolutionize the enterprise WAN, enabling WAN managers to ...

Virtualization is turning out to be the “killer app” for Intel-based Macs. With it, new Macs can run not only Mac OS X but Windows and other operating systems. And the technology promises to shake ...