The recent IT Roadmap conference in Chicago began with Jim and two other analysts on stage being asked questions by John Gallant. Given the current economic conditions, the question and answer session ...

Network World IT Roadmap speakers tackle virtualization’s benefits, challenges. Virtualization is making data centers more flexible and efficient, but the technology is also raising new challenges, IT ...

Virtualization is making data centers more flexible and efficient, but the technology is also raising new challenges, IT managers say. Consolidating onto fewer physical servers is one of the ...

The trend of virtualization is one of the most powerful forces in technology. Using data abstraction and control, the functions of compute, networking, and storage are being virtualized to create a ...

While Wall Street and the IT industry remain ga-ga over VMware, the company has some serious challenges ahead. According to ESG Research large organizations are embracing server virtualization ...

Server virtualization is a growing reality in data centers. The economics are firmly behind the trend. Server virtualization reduces the total cost of ownership by reducing the number of physical ...

Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although the opinions expressed here are strictly his own. He's focused on enterprise IT, especially cloud computing. However, Gordon writes about a wide ...

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, ...

As the mainstream continues to adopt virtualization into their IT environments, the question of IT security still comes up. In fact, some worry that security might even pose a bigger problem within a ...

While much is made of the benefits of virtualization, it also creates new issues in areas like cooling and power supply Virtualization is making datacenters more flexible and efficient, but the ...