Carlos Soto is an award-winning reviewer and journalist with 20 years of experience covering technology and business within various sectors and industries. State and local agencies should harness the ...

In addition to benefits from disaster recovery and cost savings are benefits associated with flexibility (that is, the ability to dynamically reallocate hardware resources more easily than one can do ...

A new study from Saugatuck Technology says server virtualization will have the single largest impact on budgets for IT hardware and support through 2010. The survey, titled "The Many Faces of ...

Desktop virtualization is hot -- ask any IT pundit. But it can also be confusing, because the market contains a variety of server- and client-based technologies for creating virtual desktops. Virtual ...

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, ...

In this four-part series, Ars looks at various aspects of the real-world experience of rolling out virtualization in the enterprise. The series focuses on the popular VMware package, but the lessons ...

Despite the broad adoption of server virtualization, many firms still struggle with the technical and organizational changes that virtualization brings. We see IT shops facing three major challenges: ...

Virtualization helps overcome the limitations of traditional test systems. By consolidating multiple PCs into a single ...