The soaring power of chips is throwing up all sorts of challenges for virtualisation and server scaling, says Carl Claunch. On the face of it, the significant increases in the power of processors is a ...

The magic word for today is virtualisation. IBM has launched its Virtualization Engine, and you can't find a tech company on the planet that doesn't pay at least lip service to the idea. Briefly put, ...

While it is generally recognised that virtualisation is an important step in the move to cloud computing, as it enables efficient use of the underlying hardware and allows for true scalability, for ...

It is true to say that there has been a lot of talk about virtualisation over the years and you would be forgiven for thinking that every server and every storage system has had some kind of ...

Telstra is increasingly turning to virtualisation as its core strategy to both manage the rising costs of — and growth in — its data centres, according the company’s CIO, John McInerney. Running for ...

With all the hype about cloud, containers and Kubernetes, you might be fooled into thinking that server virtualisation is dead. Although it might be a mature market, server virtualisation is evolving.

The rapid proliferation of virtualisation in recent years, growing from 40% of server workloads in 2012 to nearly 80% in 2016, makes it appear as if it’s a very recent technology. But it’s not quite ...

The early days of x86 server virtualisation were full of promise. Consolidation of physical servers often led to immediate hardware cost savings and a reduction in administrative overhead. Around ...

Jon Fell and Mhairi Mival of international law firm Pinsent Masons discuss the legal and regulatory issues that virtualisation can often create The use of virtualisation techniques has grown in ...

The virtualisation market is facing a reckoning. For years, businesses have tolerated complexity in their infrastructure because the alternatives felt too risky or disruptive, but that is changing ...