If you hopped in a time machine and went back to the very first VMworld, you wouldn't have been bumping elbows with people on the escalators, or scrambling to find an empty chair for the opening ...

Editor’s note: In this, the first of Peter H. Salus’s articles, he explains virtualization with an unusual metaphor, puts it in historical context, and suggests some often-overlooked benefits.

Virtualization is currently a hot topic, along with "the future." But what do discussions of the future usually accomplish in tech? This is an exciting moment for data virtualization. The options ...

The future of technology always has roots in the past. And the past is indeed long in the case of virtualization, a technology that is reshaping today’s IT industry and will likely play a huge role in ...

The folks at Ravello Systems approached me to brief me on how they're offering "Virtualization 2.0." The exact words they used are: With your interest in innovation the cloud, I thought you may be ...

The future of virtualization in the corporate data center is firmly established, but questions about the value of virtualization beyond that world remain as fuzzy as the future of many-core systems.

There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed ...