Network virtualization is a method of combining the available resources in a network to consolidate multiple physical networks, divide a network into segments or create software networks between VMs.

Server virtualization is a process that creates and abstracts multiple virtual instances on a single server. Server virtualization also abstracts or masks server resources, including the number and ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

Virtualization has brought a dramatic level of growth and advancement to technology and business over the years. It transforms physical infrastructure into dedicated, partitioned virtual machines (VM) ...

First, lets be clear: this comment is about server virtualization through ghosting - the business of using one OS to run one or more ghost OSes in lieu of applications each of which in turn is able to ...

Having covered in recent columns what WAN Virtualization is and how it relates to WAN Optimization, let’s look at the benefits to the network that WAN Virtualization delivers for the WAN manager, ...

I think a lot of people confuse these two virtualization technologies and maybe you’re one of them. The distinction is not apparent from the names given to them but rather in the scale of the ...

As the networking industry is being transformed by the next-generation virtualization approach called software-defined networking (SDN), the complementary architectural concept of network functions ...

The infrastructures of federal networks in many ways resemble a gated community — and Stepford, while familiar and perhaps comfortable, was built decades ago. It doesn’t stand a chance against the ...

Someone recently asked me about the origin of the Data Virtualization category name. From my unique perspective as the software marketer who drove the term and category’s successful adoption, I ...

A: Yes. Virtualization is one of the most widely interpreted themes I’ve ever known. Here’s my attempt to simplify the context of virtualization, which of course will add even more complexity to your ...