Organizations are using virtualization to manage their cloud environment effectively. Here is a rundown of the different types and what each can offer. In enterprise IT infrastructure, virtualization ...

The network team is being bombarded with configuration requests that can take days or weeks to handle, but luckily several approaches are emerging that promise to increase network agility, chief among ...

While system virtualization — and to a lesser extent, desktop virtualization — has held most of the virtualization limelight, there is also a growing trend in network virtualization. Most of you in ...

As the networking industry is being transformed by the next-generation virtualization approach called software-defined networking (SDN), the complementary architectural concept of network functions ...

Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) represents a paradigm shift in the design and deployment of network services, decoupling software implementations of network functions from specialised hardware.

Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

Giving everyone with a wireless card access to the same places on the network creates risk. Guests at an office, for example, may need to access the Internet from the lobby, but they shouldn’t have ...

Applied to servers or storage, virtualization lets users host dozens or hundreds of server operating system instances, or divide and control the amounts of storage on different disks, both from a few ...

Network Appliance’s announcement of its latest V-Series storage and management systems highlight the further spread of a trend that nearly all major hardware and software vendors tout in some form or ...

The next-generation datacenter is filled with virtualization, offering virtual servers, virtual desktops, virtual storage, and virtual applications -- but what about the network? When creating the ...