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 ...

In Jim’s 2008 edition of the “Handbook of Application Delivery,” virtualization was addressed as a meaningful trend, but, within the scope of the 140-plus page book, it was not a major theme. In Jim’s ...

Dell knows about the importance of delivering applications to end users, since it's one of the biggest hardware manufacturers in the industry. Here's the company's take on the different ways it can be ...

Application virtualization is one of those technologies that has been around for a little while now, but it just doesn't seem to get the same attention as its older sibling -- server virtualization.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tony Bishop, CEO of start-up IT consultancy Adaptivity and virtualization go-to guy, explains how to shift from a tactical to a strategic virtualization strategy. As an IT executive at Wachovia, Tony ...

What to do? The newspaper reversed course. Rather than deploy more servers, it has spent the past 14 months eliminating them by morphing single-purpose servers into virtual machines within host ...

Oracle just launched Oracle Global Secure Desktop 4.7. It is a desktop virtualization product based upon Oracle's Oracle VM, access virtualization and application virtualization technology. It is ...