Tony Bishop, CEO of start-up IT consultancy Adaptivity and virtualization go-to guy, explains how to shift from a tactical to a strategic virtualization strategy. As an IT executive at Wachovia, Tony ...

Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. The U.S. Navy’s two hospital ships ...

Network virtualization works by abstracting and isolating network applications and services from the underlying network hardware devices and physical infrastructure. The overall concept of ...

FERC Order No. 919 modernizes the CIP Reliability Standards framework by recognizing virtualized technologies and enabling greater flexibility in how entities design and secure CIP environments. While ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently proclaimed that data centers consumed 61 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2006. That’s roughly 1.6% of total U.S. electricity consumption and ...

IT administrators often have to deal with virtualization problems, such as VM sprawl, network congestion, server hardware failures, reduced VM performance, software licensing restrictions and ...

Virtualization helps overcome the limitations of traditional test systems. By consolidating multiple PCs into a single solution, the system becomes more compact, cost-efficient, and yet powerful.

Virtualization is a 20-year-old technology with roots in mainframe computer systems that has moved to PCs. Attorney, computer consultant and blogger Alan Pearlman discusses how compartmentalized ...

As the virtualization market continues to shift, many financial institutions are reassessing their current platforms and exploring alternatives that better align with rising application costs, ...

Server virtualization through the use of software products such as VMware has been implemented to varying degrees in corporate IT, with some successful and some not-so-successful outcomes. This year, ...