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 ...

Virtualization is a hot topic in today’s demanding “get-more-for-less”business environment. Consolidating numerous computer systems so theyrun efficiently on fewer servers is a standard operating ...

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 ...

As mentioned in my post titled, Virtualization and Green Computing, green computing the industry catch phrase for finding ways to make the most efficient use of computing resources. In this post, I'd ...

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 ...

In the first article in our two-part series on virtualization, we asked the IT pros in the Ars forums to share their tips and best practices for first-time virtualization deployments. The results were ...

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 ...

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The virtualization models for clients are, arguably, more diverse than those for servers. For servers there are essentially two, the earlier model of static consolidation and the more recent dynamic ...

An entire industry has sprung up in response to the never-ending battle against complexity, server sprawl, and rising power consumption. Virtualization is now the mantra for beleaguered data center ...

In the "old days," office workers used what were called "dumb terminals" – dumb in that the devices were simply conduits to applications and information stored on mainframe computers. Then, mainframes ...