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 ...

Virtualization is a hot topic in today’s demanding “get-more-for-less”business environment. Consolidating numerous computer systems so theyrun efficiently on fewer servers is a standard operating ...

As mentioned in my post titled, Virtualization and Green Computing, green computing the industry catch phrase for finding ways to make the most efficient use of computing resources. In this post, I'd ...

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 ...

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 ...

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What is virtualization anyway? This five-part series on a trend that is reaching into every corner of the technology landscape addresses that fundamental question, along with many of the complex ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...