Business-driven processes for measuring and guaranteeing service levels in the cloud will help CIOs successfully transition to this new infrastructure.
Government agencies will soon have access to storage, virtualization, and Web hosting applications via Apps.gov, the General Service Administration's cloud-based storefront, government officials said yesterday.
Specialty engines and a new virtualization facility are keeping Unisys mainframes in the spotlight and customers interested.
How to cut the cost of desktop virtualization
Although efforts to reach the "neglected" or "untapped" mid-market shops are nothing new, HP's Just Right IT seems to have most of its ducks in a row.
Given all the buzz about desktop virtualization, is the technology right for you? What's holding up adoption, and what should you know before you embrace the technology?
Virtualization’s great promise may be compromised if virtual machines can't be easily recovered.
Our storage analyst, Jon Toigo, explores a model that, if fully realized, would be light years ahead of what your favorite hardware vendors call "smart storage" today.
What gets in the way of managing and controlling your virtual environment effectively, and what best practices can you use to avoid VM stall?
Microsoft used the occasion of the open source conference last month to advance its vision of an open cloud by breaking it down into four basic principles.
How to ensure security is part of the cloud adoption strategy.
Where virtualization is headed, and what problems (and solutions) lie ahead for IT.
More proactive capacity planning can get IT closer to a fully virtualized data center.
The VMWare-Novell pact looks like a coup for both companies.
Leading provider of application delivery networking devices announces integration with Microsoft System Center
When it comes to securing the increasingly virtualized systems of the 21st century, IT seems to be stuck in 20th-century mode.
Uncooperative application owners, low confidence in virtualization management tools cited for slow growth
No one seems to know just how pervasive virtualization is, but everybody seems to agree that at some point -- perhaps very soon – it' will be ubiquitous.
How to improve laptop management and the benefits of hosted virtual desktops.
IT chiefs are increasingly deploying blades in strategic roles. In addition, blades -- more than any other server kit -- have emerged as hotbeds of virtualization.