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 ...

Virtualisation will be the key to the popularity of Microsoft's long-awaited server operating system, Windows Server 2008, analysts have predicted. The final version of the OS — formerly known as ...

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.

There are very few things bloggers or analysts can do to erode their credibility with experienced IT managers than to say some new technology is going to change every aspect of computing within a very ...

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 ...

At the recent VMworld conference in Barcelona VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said the chip architecture which will dominate the data center will be x86. Given his Intel background Mr Gelsinger said it was ...

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 ...

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 ...