In our last few entries we looked at what can be done today with storage software running as virtual machines. In this entry we will consider what the future holds for storage as a virtual machine.

Virtual machine storage is a demanding business. Where once one app server equalled one physical server and the demands on storage were known and predictable, with virtual machines, storage I/O has ...

Server and desktop virtualisation are key technologies driving forward today’s data centres. They bring huge efficiencies to IT that just weren’t possible in an all-physical world. But, delivering ...

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Rick Cook learned programming on a computer with magnetic drum memory. Since then he's written thousands of articles on all aspects of computers and high technology — as well as several fantasy novels ...

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Parallels (parallels.com/about), a global leader in cross-platform solutions and creator of the #1-selling software for running ...

If you use Hyper-V as a server virtualization platform, you might have noticed physical storage space being depleted more quickly than it should be. In this article, I am going to show you two reasons ...

Flash storage vendor Fusion-io has agreed to buy IO Turbine for up to $95 million to extend its on-server cache products to virtualized environments. IO Turbine provides software that allows cache ...

Virtualization manageability can spiral out of control quickly if the rollout isn’t planned properly and the virtual-machine life cycle taken into account; tools from companies like Fortisphere and ...

Imagine this: You're using one Linux distribution and you want to quickly deploy a virtual machine of another Linux distribution for either testing purposes or to have a secondary operating system to ...

Windows users have several virtualization platforms at their disposal, allowing them to run simulated (or virtualized) systems within a single PC, each acting as a completely independent PC ...