On Wednesday, Microsoft added the hypercall API for the Viridian hypervisor to the Open Specification Promise, a designation aimed at encouraging third party development which applies to a handful of ...

Rather than starting with server virtualization and looking up the technology stack, Oracle starts at the business application and looks down. In this way, Oracle can align its portfolio of business ...

When you think virtualization, you likely think of VMware. But there are plenty of other sever virtualization options available to solution providers, according to the 2009 CRN Channel Contenders ...

Microsoft is ramping up a new line of virtualization certifications to go hand-in-hand with its release of the Hyper-V server virtualization technology. The Windows Server Virtualization exam is now ...

Server virtualization is hotter than hot, ignited by the technology’s use in creating a more compact, highly flexible and cost-efficient server infrastructure. Survey results from Forrester Research, ...

SWsoft, a provider of both operating system and hardware virtualization products, has an interesting whitepaper titled "Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology". This ...

In my humble opinion, server virtualization technology is at a tipping point. Yes, we’ve squeezed a lot of value out of it to consolidate Windows server workloads but future “dynamic virtual ...

Server virtualization may be enterprise computing’s latest technology, but a recent survey of corporate IT buyers shows that near-term adoption may not match the hype. According to an August survey of ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Server virtualization through the use of software products such as VMware has been implemented to varying degrees in corporate IT, with some successful and some not-so-successful outcomes. This year, ...

When you’re in the home lab ecosystem, you’re bound to come across cool-sounding technical jargon. For instance, there are high-availability clusters that can add more fault tolerance to your ...

Nearly half of global virtualization projects are unsuccessful, this according to an independent global study which surveyed 800 organizations from around the world. The study, commissioned by ...