• Q&A: Copyright Agency CIO, Jacob Dudzinski

  By Hamish Barwick | 09 February, 2012 09:36

  Jacob Dudzinski has been CIO of the Copyright Agency in Sydney for four years. Over the past two years, he has been responsible for a business process and systems improvement program.

• EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions

  By Stephen Lawson | 07 February, 2012 11:38

  EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards, integration with VMware and less expensive MLC flash media.

• Nicira debuts with its SDN baby

  By Jim Duffy | 06 February, 2012 16:28

  One of the most anticipated debuts of a startup company happens today when Nicira, a maker of network virtualization software, comes out of stealth mode.

• EMC launches 'Project Lightning' PCIe cards

  By Lucas Mearian | 06 February, 2012 08:32

  EMC today launched its long-awaited "Project Lightning," now called the VFCache product line, an initiative to sell PCIe-based NAND flash cards for servers as a caching element to increase I/O performance by up to 4,000 times.

• The future of hypervisors

  By Network World staff | 04 February, 2012 08:34

  The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools, each with different strengths and weaknesses.

• Motorola Atrix hints at a virtualized, cloud future

  By Keir Thomas | 08 January, 2011 08:07

  Motorola announced the Atrix smartphone at the Consumer Electronics Show, and while many have been concentrating on its 4G connectivity and clever desktop dock that lets it run a cut-down Linux desktop on a full-sized monitor, nearly everybody has missed something very important.

• Burning questions: Virtualisation

  By Jon Brodkin | 26 October, 2010 00:52

  Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process -- as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware's ESX, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Xen can make IT more efficient and cost-effective, many of the virtualization advantages can be canceled out when data centers rely on technology and processes that haven't been updated for the virtualization age.

• 'Year of the virtual desktop' a flop so far

  By Kevin Fogarty | 30 July, 2010 01:56

  More than halfway through what vendors and many analysts predicted would be the year virtual desktops would replace enormous numbers of the physical kind, sales of desktop virtualization products are growing at a rate "that looks about the same as in 2009," according to Ian Song, analyst for International Data Corp.

• Virtualization Shines in Cautious IT Hiring Picture

  By Kevin Fogarty | 20 January, 2010 05:52

  Surveys showing the spending and hiring picture for IT as bleak for at least the first half of 2010 seem to reflect more the caution of IT managers and CIOs than their real hiring plans.

• Product Guide: SAN and NAS virtualisation

  By Steve Norrall | 23 November, 2009 17:06

  In just a few short years, storage virtualization, also known as block virtualization, has proven its worth in the large enterprise and traveled that well-worn path from pricey boutique solution to affordable commodity. As a standard feature in all but the most modest mid-tier storage arrays, storage virtualization soothes a wide range of storage management woes for small and mid-size organizations. At the same time, dedicated solutions from top-tier vendors deliver the greatest ROI to large shops managing large SANs with intense data availability requirements.

Whitepapers about Virtualization

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  Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications: A Critical Step on the Journey Toward the Private Cloud

  Virtualization has evolved rapidly since it first began to be used on x86 servers in 2003, mainly for test and development. By 2007, the second generation, Virtualization 2.0, was under way, and the focus was consolidating production applications. Read on.