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 ...

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 ...

The magic word for today is virtualisation. IBM has launched its Virtualization Engine, and you can't find a tech company on the planet that doesn't pay at least lip service to the idea. Briefly put, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pfizer is the second-largest pharmaceutical company in the world. As with all drug-makers, research and development is the engine of its business. Pfizer devotes a sum equivalent to more than 15% of ...

Jon Fell and Mhairi Mival of international law firm Pinsent Masons discuss the legal and regulatory issues that virtualisation can often create The use of virtualisation techniques has grown in ...

The virtualisation market is facing a reckoning. For years, businesses have tolerated complexity in their infrastructure because the alternatives felt too risky or disruptive, but that is changing ...