Generally speaking, there are three typical classes of virtual machine (VM) architecture -- the hypervisor, host-based virtualization and para-virtualization, which are differentiated by the position ...

When Roland Etcheverry joined chemical company Champion Technologies Inc. two years ago, he looked around and realized he needed to remake the company’s storage environment. He had done this twice ...

If there’s one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it’s virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...

Disaster recovery is certainly more than getting the data out of your data center and having it land in a remote facility, but that isn't a bad pace to start. Problem is, there are now 800 different ...

A few years ago, I wrote a speculative piece about how off-the-shelf x86 desktop virtualization technology such as VMware, Parallels and Oracle VirtualBox could be used as a means to defend PCs ...

Clabby Analytics – “Virtualization” refers to placing systems, storage, and/or network resources into logical groups or virtualized “pools”. These resources can then be exploited by applications and ...

Red Hat's clearly investing in adding value to the open source KVM (kernel virtual machine) project and integrating virtual machine technology more tightly into other products to make it easier for ...

Last time, we discussed “white space,” unused pool of assets, which when it comes to storage, means idle disk storage. It is what we used to term “headroom” – that extra mass storage we keep on hand ...

Commentary--The emerging IT adoption of virtualization technology holds the promise of reduced power consumption, reduced management complexity, better asset utilization and a more agile IT ...