Gartner's latest survey results on IT spending, as reported last week in the Wall St. Journal, predict a decline of 3.8 percent in 2009 (based on U.S....
There was never any doubt it would happen, but the argument that Hyper-V is "just a hypervisor" is fast becoming spurious. Last week, Microsoft added fault tolerance...
It would be hard to argue with the idea that 2008 was the year virtualization went mainstream. No doubt this growth trajectory will continue in the new...
As 2008 draws to a close, virtualization remains one of the few bright spots in a year mired in financial debacles, a deepening recession and credit crisis...
Mobile devices are increasingly finding their way in the server room. As ServerWatch columnist Paul Rubens noted last week, from iPhones to BlackBerries, smartphones are penetrating...
Nowhere are the differences between Xen and VMware more clear than in their strategies. Citrix CTO Simon Crosby highlighted the difference in a recent conversation, noting, "Citrix'...
The National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday that the United Stares has been in a recession since last December. We, of course, all suspected this for...
Somewhat glossed over in the shuffle of last week's supercomputing show was news that IBM had made a big purchase that has the potential to impact the...
The bi-annual Supercomputing show kicked off Tuesday in Austin, Texas, and with it came the release of 32nd bi-annual TOP500 Supercomputer list. IBM's Roadrunner based out...
Editor's note: Two weeks ago, we quoted Virtual Iron CEO Ed Walsh as saying that Virtual Iron is the most frequently selected virtualization environment for Dell servers....
Many cliches could be applied to Virtual Iron — dark horse, always a bridesmaid. It doesn't have the market share of VMware and several years ago it...
It's not surprising that Xen would chose a word synonymous with enlightenment for its open source portability standard. Xen describes Project Kensho as providing a powerful,...