Virtualization

Features

• 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.

• 5 Things I've Learned: Brian Ott from Unisys

  By CIO Staff | 19 November, 2009 07:46

  The former CTO of Unisys shares his thoughts on data centre consolidation, virtualisation and "hybrid clouds".

• Smart Wins: Seeds of Efficiency

  By Cindy Waxer | 19 November, 2009 08:37

  How Swedish agribusiness Lantmännen cultivated a more cost-effective infrastructure.

• Five Lessons from a Data Center's Crisis of Capacity

  By Robert Lemos | 16 October, 2009 02:31

  When the data centre neared its failure point, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory embarked on a project to revamp facilities without breaking the budget. Consider these practical lessons from the edge of failure.

• Desktop Virtualization: 5 Popular Flavors, Explained

  By Kevin Fogarty | 08 October, 2009 02:00

  While VMware and Citrix go head-to-head over how to virtualize the desktop, most users say they prefer to deploy more than one flavor of desktop virtualization. Here's a look at today's five main desktop virtualization choices and their advantages and disadvantages.

• Windows 7 May Spur Virtual Desktops, On and Off the iPhone

  By Kevin Fogarty | 01 October, 2009 07:46

  Predictions from analysts and virtualization vendors that desktop virtualization will take off during 2010 may be off the mark. Sales may take off, but the desktop PC may not have much to do with it.

• QEMU virtualization reaches 0.11, brings 1400 changes

  By Rodney Gedda | 30 September, 2009 14:06

  Open source virtualization app QEMU has reached version 0.11 and brings some 1400 changes from 90 contributors.

• Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects?

  By Bernard Golden | 30 September, 2009 07:52

  There's been a lot of discussion the past couple of days about an analysis by Guy Rosen, in which he estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is provisioning 50K EC2 server instances per day. He created this estimate by examining EC2 resource IDs and doing a time-series analysis on how much the IDs are incremented per hour.