Server virtualization means something fairly specific. Storage virtualization is a bit more diffuse. But it's I/O virtualization that really covers a lot of ground. At a high level, virtualization ...

I/O virtualization (IOV) is simply the ability to make one device look like multiple devices, each assignable to a unique SI. Moving the virtualization to the device level can provide dramatic ...

Virtualization is a key enabling technology for the modern datacenter. Without virtualization, tricks like load balancing and multitenancy wouldn’t be available from datacenters that use commodity x86 ...

Combining and sharing network and storage channels in a virtualized server environment. I/O virtualization enables Ethernet and disk I/O to use one Ethernet adapter in each server, or two for ...

Virtualized servers put big I/O demands on enterprise networks, but new I/O virtualization technologies from vendors nnincluding Gear6 and Xsigo can help ease the traffic jam. Bottom line benefits: ...

As a technology (not financial) analyst, my company talks to and works with very many companies ranging from consumer handset makers to the leaders in mega datacenter cloud infrastructure. What I am ...

Brace yourselves. You are going to hear more and more about I/O virtualization, as well as storage and network virtualization, over the coming months. As server virtualization and the cloud continue ...

The PCI-SIG has defined virtualization technology based on PCIe (SR-IOV and MR-IOV), and industry leaders are developing PCIe switches that take full advantage of emerging I/O virtualization ...

NetXen introduced a complete I/O architecture that unleashes the potential of server virtualization. Based on new functionality for the company's Intelligent NIC family, the NetSlice architecture ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Last week, a vendor sponsored survey from Xsigo was published claiming that an I/O bottleneck exists within server virtualization deployments. Vendor survey skepticism aside, many people in the ...