The soaring power of chips is throwing up all sorts of challenges for virtualisation and server scaling, says Carl Claunch. On the face of it, the significant increases in the power of processors is a ...

Despite the recession and the general pressure on IT budgets, the virtualisation sector has not been too badly hit. Organisations are still buying into the idea of cutting costs by reducing utility ...

It is true to say that there has been a lot of talk about virtualisation over the years and you would be forgiven for thinking that every server and every storage system has had some kind of ...

Find out more about Why the cloud has become a necessity, don't miss it. Read now.The keys to a successful migration to the ...

While it is generally recognised that virtualisation is an important step in the move to cloud computing, as it enables efficient use of the underlying hardware and allows for true scalability, for ...

With all the hype about cloud, containers and Kubernetes, you might be fooled into thinking that server virtualisation is dead. Although it might be a mature market, server virtualisation is evolving.

The rapid proliferation of virtualisation in recent years, growing from 40% of server workloads in 2012 to nearly 80% in 2016, makes it appear as if it’s a very recent technology. But it’s not quite ...

Desmond Nair doesn't have one of the more exciting jobs at Microsoft. He doesn't deal with Web 2.0, nor does he design games for the Xbox. Nair is the group manager for servers in the Gulf. While ...

For many, the answer is increasingly “no.” We’re seeing a real shift, and in some rare cases, organisations are even choosing to de-virtualise certain workloads, moving them back onto physical ...

Bromium’s micro-virtualisation technology was originally developed to enable users to open any executable file, document or web page without fear of infecting the host PC or networks, but now the ...

The early days of x86 server virtualisation were full of promise. Consolidation of physical servers often led to immediate hardware cost savings and a reduction in administrative overhead. Around ...

Jon Fell and Mhairi Mival of international law firm Pinsent Masons discuss the legal and regulatory issues that virtualisation can often create The use of virtualisation techniques has grown in ...