The trend of virtualization is one of the most powerful forces in technology. Using data abstraction and control, the functions of compute, networking, and storage are being virtualized to create a ...

Data communication networks are complex environments, where operations teams are challenged to maintain stability while deploying new services or implementing changes. The network engineering and ...

Network World IT Roadmap speakers tackle virtualization’s benefits, challenges. Virtualization is making data centers more flexible and efficient, but the technology is also raising new challenges, IT ...

Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) represents a paradigm shift in the design and deployment of network services, decoupling software implementations of network functions from specialised hardware.

In our last newsletter we discussed some of the benefits of virtual appliances. In this newsletter we will discuss some of the potential challenges that are associated with virtual appliances. One of ...

The next-generation datacenter is filled with virtualization, offering virtual servers, virtual desktops, virtual storage, and virtual applications -- but what about the network? When creating the ...

While much is made of the benefits of virtualization, it also creates new issues in areas like cooling and power supply Virtualization is making datacenters more flexible and efficient, but the ...

Not long ago, businesspeople were carrying around two devices: one for work and the other containing the digital content of their personal lives. But this juggling of devices, while necessary for ...

While system virtualization — and to a lesser extent, desktop virtualization — has held most of the virtualization limelight, there is also a growing trend in network virtualization. Most of you in ...