I am often asked if memory speed matters when making a purchase, whether it will increase performance. I get asked that a lot, especially for VDI, and my answer is a resounding "No!" I would much ...

Despite hype and promise of virtualization, many companies are avoiding the tech for mission-critical applications. A new survey helps to explain why. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of ...

Application Development in the Cloud Converges From a technical perspective, cloud computing is the convergence of several pervasive technologies combining to simplify, standardize, and automate much ...

Justin Murray started his presentation [“Virtualizing Your Java Applications: Best Practices” (21860)] about five minutes early and began by saying that virtualization has arrived at the point where ...

Platform virtualization has traditionally involved abstracting application access to hardware resources, such as compute power, storage drives, random-access memory and I/O bandwidth. The next ...

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Virtualization is abstracting functions or complete stacks of software away from the underlying infrastructure to increase scalability, reliability, performance, utilization, agility, manageability or ...

Softricity is expected to release this week the latest version of SoftGrid, application virtualization software that is aimed at reducing the work associated with managing Windows PCs by turning ...

Virtualization has its roots in the mainframe era of the 1960s, and is particularly associated with IBM, whose CP-67/CMS was the first commercial mainframe operating system to support a virtual ...

Enterprises are virtualizing more and more of their workloads. The benefits are well-known: consolidation and infrastructure efficiency; faster provisioning of applications and better configuration ...

Lately, I have been fielding many questions regarding how to virtualize tier-1 applications. While many organizations have gone down the route of server virtualization, many have also shied away from ...