Rather than starting with server virtualization and looking up the technology stack, Oracle starts at the business application and looks down. In this way, Oracle can align its portfolio of business ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft added the hypercall API for the Viridian hypervisor to the Open Specification Promise, a designation aimed at encouraging third party development which applies to a handful of ...

Server virtualization may be enterprise computing’s latest technology, but a recent survey of corporate IT buyers shows that near-term adoption may not match the hype. According to an August survey of ...

Many of our past columns have centered on a recurring theme: increasing the value of IT without scaling cost, all while ensuring minimal risk to the business. In keeping with this theme, in this ...

SWsoft, a provider of both operating system and hardware virtualization products, has an interesting whitepaper titled "Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology". This ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

In my humble opinion, server virtualization technology is at a tipping point. Yes, we’ve squeezed a lot of value out of it to consolidate Windows server workloads but future “dynamic virtual ...

Virtualization technology is still buzzing with activity, as its adoption by large companies remains one of the biggest trends in the economy right now. Virtualization grabbed headlines 13 months ago, ...

Virtualization is all the rage. By using virtualization technologies users can eliminate multiple physical servers and get the processing power they need from fewer boxes. That’s the idea anyway. But ...

Agencies face new security management challenges when they adopt server virtualization. Server virtualization ' a technique of running multiple combinations of applications and operating systems on a ...

Even Microsoft, however reluctantly, has now accepted the trend towards embedded hypervisors even while it simultaneously tries to keep as much control over its own destiny as possible. Gordon Haff is ...

SEATTLE/BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Monday it bought a start-up company called Calista Technologies and expanded its alliance with Citrix Systems , targeting the fast growing ...