Virtualization promises to make IT departments more flexible, more efficient and — perhaps most crucial in these tough times — more frugal. But one advantage the technology doesn’t provide is an ...

IT organizations have steadily adopted virtualization technologies in recent years to reduce the size, cost, and complexity of their infrastructure. Virtualization technologies let IT departments run ...

IT executives exploy virtualized environments to manage applications. Ask IT executives whether they use application virtualization technology and chances are they’ll answer, “Well, that depends on ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

RSA and VMware have released five best practices for locking down virtual environments and meeting compliance requirements. The steps comprise platform-hardening, configuration and change management, ...

The storage infrastructure that supports a virtualized server environment can quickly become a roadblock to expansion. As the project grows, server virtualization places new performance and scaling ...

I vividly recall the first time I experimented with a VMware virtual machine; it was indeed one of the most fascinating concepts I had ever encountered. I marveled at the idea of having a machine ...

Had Bittman asked how many of those private cloud computing environments will include metered usage, showback -- if not chargeback-- and on-demand self-service, the number likely would have been ...

A virtual firewall is a firewall device or service that provides network traffic filtering and monitoring for virtual machines (VMs) in a virtualized environment. Like a traditional network firewall, ...

The transition of healthcare to a virtual environment is a global societal movement toward a better and more convenient organization of medical care for a person and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.