Microsoft last week stepped into the virtualization market dominated by VMware with the introduction of Virtual Server 2005. The product, which it acquired from Connectix in 2003, allows network ...

Virtualization used to be about servers and desktops, but the technology is working its way into other parts of IT infrastructure. As virtualization adoption has flourished, so too has the services ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft added the hypercall API for the Viridian hypervisor to the Open Specification Promise, a designation aimed at encouraging third party development which applies to a handful of ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Data center managers have embraced server virtualization in the past year across a variety of businesses for nearly every kind of application as a way to reduce oversight and ...

SWsoft, a provider of both operating system and hardware virtualization products, has an interesting whitepaper titled "Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology". This ...

Server virtualization may be enterprise computing’s latest technology, but a recent survey of corporate IT buyers shows that near-term adoption may not match the hype. According to an August survey of ...

Server virtualization is hotter than hot, ignited by the technology’s use in creating a more compact, highly flexible and cost-efficient server infrastructure. Survey results from Forrester Research, ...

Application virtualization is one of those technologies that has been around for a little while now, but it just doesn't seem to get the same attention as its older sibling -- server virtualization.

As the economy slows down and budgets tighten up, once again IT professionals are being asked to do more with less (does anyone remember when you were allowed to do less with more?). How can you ...

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 ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

A virtual machine is a computing resource that uses software instead of a physical computer to run programs and deploy applications. It operates by running one or more virtual “guest” machines on a ...