VMware is the primary hypervisor for 58 per cent of organizations that use x86 <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102510-burning-questions-virtualization-storage.html">virtualisation</a> software, with Citrix and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a>'s Hyper-V splitting the rest of the market, a new survey finds.
With no official corporate office or IT staff, the 30 full-time Gurnet Consulting consultants have become some of the industry's ultimate <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2011/enterprise3/060611-saas-tips.html">power cloud</a> and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070511-social-networking.html">social networking</a> users.
Cisco's massive user show, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> Live, is going on this week in Las Vegas. Padmasree Warrior, Cisco's senior vice president of engineering and CTO sat down with Cisco Subnet editor and blogger Julie Bort. They discussed Cisco's progress since Warrior took the helm as CTO, the reorganization of Cisco's engineering groups, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/071211-cisco-live-catalyst6500.html?hpg1=bn">Catalyst</a> vs. Nexus, the so-called Cisco "tax" (its prices vs. the competition), network <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102510-burning-questions-virtualization-storage.html">virtualization</a>, Cisco's toe dipping into the brave new world of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/opensource/">open source</a> and the future <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/it-careers/">careers</a> of the Cisco CCIE faithful. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview.
Setting the stage for cloud deployments, VMware will update many of its core products and bundle them into an integrated release, called the Cloud Infrastructure Suite, the company announced Tuesday.
It's getting harder for VMware to argue that it's the only game in town for big-time <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102510-burning-questions-virtualization-storage.html">virtualization</a> projects.
The rush toward virtualisation of internal enterprise computing resources and cloud computing can have many advantages, such as server consolidation, but it's largely outracing traditional security and identity management practices. That's leaving huge gaps, a sense of chaos and questions about where security products and services should be applied in the world of multi-vendor virtual-machine (VM) hypervisors.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/data-center.html">Data center</a> managers are well versed in distributing power efficiently to physical servers. But the proliferation of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102510-burning-questions-virtualization-storage.html">virtualization</a>, with multiple virtual machines and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/applications.html">applications</a> running on a single piece of hardware, has made this task a lot more complicated.
ORLANDO -- If speedy IT services are important, businesses should be shifting from traditional computing into virtualization in order to build a private cloud that, whether operated by their IT department or with help from a private cloud provider, will give them that edge.
Can sensitive payment card data be processed and held in virtual-machine (VM) systems or cloud-computing environments?
IBM executives said this week that the company is looking to many of its existing tools, from the Tivoli management system to Cognos business intelligence software, to secure private and IBM-hosted hybrid clouds as customers migrate to these new computing setups.
The New York Stock Exchange has built a VMware-based cloud computing service for financial firms, which goes live today from a data center in New Jersey with expansions planned for Toronto, Tokyo and London.
Citrix's annual Synergy conference is opening with a bang this week, with Citrix previewing overhauls to nearly every component of its virtual desktop product lines, reaching from the data center to the iPad.
Cloud computing and virtualization are forcing dramatic changes in the way data centers must be designed and run, from the servers to the storage to the network infrastructure.
Several big IT vendors, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, BMC Software, Intel and Red Hat, announced this week that they are banding together to promote an open-source virtualization platform -- Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) -- as an alternative to VMware.
With the popularity of its virtual-machine software soaring, VMware has been focusing on optimizing security for its vSphere platform both through cooperation with third-party security vendors and encouraging a shift to its own software-based security architecture known as vShield.