Migration into a cloud environment by means of virtualization of servers is extremely attractive and has instant paybacks. Compared with other software-intensive improvements, the ability to combine ...

Consolidation, standardization, virtualization and utility are the four stages of development data centers pass through as IT organizations move towards a truly services-based model. Virtualization is ...

The infrastructure virtualization trend in many industries today involves a bottom-up approach. Savings are gained by virtualizing the infrastructure under an application – the servers, storage and so ...

After many years of venerable service, IBM is retiring the xSeries server line. In fact, IBM is retiring the “Series” nomenclature altogether, rebranding their entire mainstream server line “System x.

VMware Inc. expects 14,000 attendees at its annual user conference in Las Vegas this week, including workers from more than 200 trade-show exhibitors. That’s a 30% increase over last year’s attendance ...

“I’m watching carefully a little company out of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,” says Jerry Lynch, division director for operations at OCLC. “The user community is going to go nuts for this kind of stuff.” ...