Virtualization is rapidly transforming the information landscape and changing the way that people compute. Today’s powerful x86 computer hardware was originally designed to run only a single operating ...

Cloud computing promises new ways to build and deploy distributed applications. So why are we so hung up on the old ones? James Urquhart is a field technologist with almost 20 years of experience in ...

If you’ve been working with computers for a while, the acronym “DMTF” should be a familiar one to you. But if you still think of it as “Desktop Management Task Force,” then you probably aren’t aware ...

Most of us have stored VMware content such as ISO images, OVF VMs, OVA VMs and valuable scripts on a local or remote datastore to build out Windows Virtual Machines (VMs), ESXi hosts or Linux VMs. The ...

Open Virtualization Format could solve key problems with virtualization deployments. It's got key vendors behind it. And it's likely to be even more important as the use of cloud computing increases.

CIO.com – Quick: What part of IT data centers operations hasn’t been transformed by virtualization? After all, server virtualization’s value is well-established. Many, many companies have migrated ...