Two of the hottest IT technologies in 2010 are virtualization and cloud computing. Both are heavily evangelized in the industry as the “wave of the future” and the “next big thing.” This is primarily ...

During her keynote session at Interop New York 2008, Hattar pulled the sheet off of virtualization's mysteries -- whether you consider it a "one to many" or a "many to one" technology -- defining it ...

The Cloud Hypervisor project today became the latest open-source software project to be welcomed into the arms of the Linux Foundation. A hypervisor, sometimes known as a virtual machine monitor, is ...

Organizations are using virtualization to manage their cloud environment effectively. Here is a rundown of the different types and what each can offer. In enterprise IT infrastructure, virtualization ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the availability of C5 instances, aimed at more compute-intensive workloads for the EC2 cloud. The C5 instances – three from the sharp end in Amazon’s compute ...

I find it puzzling whenever I come across any reasonably sized IT infrastructure that has little or no virtualization in place, and my puzzlement turns to amazement if there’s no plan to embrace ...

It looks like Microsoft may be seeking a way to allow developers to hunker behind a security bunker when using the company's Hyper-V hypervisor. It looks like Microsoft may be seeking a way to allow ...

Hypervisor decisions are bankrupting IT strategiesBy Helen Kruger, Managing Director at Troye.Issued by TroyeJohannesburg, 09 Sep 2026 Helen Kruger, CEO of Troye. (Image: Troye) The biggest ...

Cloud computing may seem more hype than reality as the technology industry is busy refining the term. However, substantive business and market trends are catapulting cloud computing to the forefront.

A VM refers to an isolated computing environment that's portable, scalable, reconfigurable and -- in most cases -- more cost-effective than a physical computing environment. A VM mimics a physical ...

Cloud computing can increase your productivity and profits. Find out what exactly cloud computing is, along with its benefits ...

One of the biggest decisions IT managers have to make is how and where to run data center applications. Fortunately, there are multiple choices that lower costs and increase business agility, ...