If you hopped in a time machine and went back to the very first VMworld, you wouldn't have been bumping elbows with people on the escalators, or scrambling to find an empty chair for the opening ...

Editor’s note: In this, the first of Peter H. Salus’s articles, he explains virtualization with an unusual metaphor, puts it in historical context, and suggests some often-overlooked benefits.

Virtualization is currently a hot topic, along with "the future." But what do discussions of the future usually accomplish in tech? This is an exciting moment for data virtualization. The options ...

The future of technology always has roots in the past. And the past is indeed long in the case of virtualization, a technology that is reshaping today’s IT industry and will likely play a huge role in ...

server virtualization and storage virtualization have been around for years, allowing additional workloads to operate on existing devices, or pooling and provisioning resources without regard for ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

The folks at Ravello Systems approached me to brief me on how they're offering "Virtualization 2.0." The exact words they used are: With your interest in innovation the cloud, I thought you may be ...

The idea behind all virtualization is to abstract a computer's hardware resources from the software that uses those resources. A hypervisor is a software tool installed on the host system to provide ...