Server virtualization has been with us in Windows computing for about 10 years. During that time, many small businesses have embraced the technology to get more bang for their server buck and also to ...

Could a network virtualization platform be built like VMware did for compute? We explain why it's unlikely even though there is business value in doing so.

VMware’s vSphere virtualization platform is known for its reliability and offers built-in features like High Availability (HA) to ensure that physical server failures have only minor effects on ...

According to Cisco, when combined with a physical storage model (where the storage the server utilizes is dedicated to that server), overall utilization drops to around 15 percent, compared to virtual ...

What's next after server virtualization? Desktop virtualization There are a number of steps an organization could take after successfully executing a server consolidation strategy.

While server virtualization is beneficial, it didn’t abstract storage from the virtual machine, causing inefficiencies and keeping storage provisioning a manual task.

Unlike server virtualization, storage virtualization has yet to prove it is mature technology with clear payback, Jim Damoulakis points out in his weekly column.

Bill O'Brien takes a looks at the buzz around server virtualization and warns that if something's virtual it only seems to be what it really is.

Server virtualization is supposed to save buckets of cash, largely from server reduction. After all, consolidating some 20 physical servers to three host servers means less hardware, power and ...