Application virtualization is using special tools to "encapsulate" an application allowing it to run in an enhanced way. The application may run in an isolated environment that makes it possible for ...

VMware is by far the market leader for server virtualization, with competitors Microsoft and Citrix far behind. But when one expands the market to include application virtualization, the race gets ...

John Hamilton, EVP and Chief Operating Officer of Trigence, and I had a long discusion about application virtualization recently. One of the more challenging issues for suppliers of application ...

What to do? The newspaper reversed course. Rather than deploy more servers, it has spent the past 14 months eliminating them by morphing single-purpose servers into virtual machines within host ...

To understand what HA solutions best fit your environment, you need to understand their history and how they've evolved. High Availability (HA) is a topic with a great deal of history. Different ...

You would be hard-pressed not to hear an IT department talk about virtualization. When virtualization was first born, IT departments went gangbusters using this revolutionary change to get better ...

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 ...

It is a widely held misconception that in order to fully make use of the performance available with multicore processors, virtualization in the form of a hypervisor must be used, along with a ...

Virtualization is transforming self-evident physical machines into multiple virtual machines (VMs), which can be cloned instantly at no perceived cost and moved seamlessly from one physical machine to ...