As a processor guy, I mostly cover the low-level hardware aspects of virtualization. But through my writing on the topic, I end up coming into contact with a wide variety of folks who either work for ...

Virtualization will become dominant in enterprises, but the security risks are fuzzy at best. Meanwhile, the usual defense--firewalls, security appliances and such aren't ready for virtualization.

A term that I've been hearing more frequently in the past few months is "desktop virtualization." What does that mean anyway? It seems to me that this could be the use of any one of several different ...

A primer on virtual computing, and how it may affect your investments. Virtualization is perhaps the hottest high-tech buzzword around these days. But what exactly is it -- and how does the whole ...

Server virtualization, have you ever heard of it? You’d be surprised how important it is and how much it is used around the world. Now, since not a lot of people have knowledge of server ...

When a computer or an operating system uses software to do anything it normally can’t, the enabling technology tends to get labeled “virtualization.” Well, don’t believe everything you read (except ...

Virtualization is a hot topic in IT circles right now, but it's often misunderstood by many in the higher education community. The term is broad, so we’ll break it down and demystify the topic.

Depending on whom you talk to, desktop virtualization is either the hottest trend in IT or an expensive notion with limited appeal Desktop virtualization harks back to the good old mainframe days of ...

This year it seems like every other computing news story has discussed virtualization, and if you haven’t yet got a grip on what it means, you probably feel a little left-out. Virtualization seems to ...

As you know if you’ve been reading this column for the last several weeks, I believe that we’re at the dawn of a NEW architecture that will revolutionize the enterprise WAN, enabling WAN managers to ...