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THE IT DEPARTMENT is often at the forefront of an organization's technology innovation--but not always. When it conies to the concept of a standard desktop--every employees core install consisting of [...]

THE RECESSION may have forced Media General Inc. to scale back its grand plans for server virtualization in 2009, but like many other businesses, the communications company is planning a [...]

Byline: Jim Duffy SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- SDNs have gone from concept to reality. Users that were listening to vendor and researcher pitches on the benefits of software-defined networking at [...]

Byline: Jim Duffy Enterprise adoption of SDNs is lagging that of service providers due to several factors, primarily the criticality of the network itself.To service providers, the network is the [...]

Byline: Jon Gold The application delivery controller has been more than a simple accelerator and load balancer for some time now, becoming an increasingly important component of enterprise network infrastructures [...]

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. According to a recent survey, [...]

Byline: Brandon Butler CHICAGO - For networking folks, the good old days are fading away. Applications used to be easy to manage, at least compared to today. Traditional network architecture [...]

Byline: Brandon Butler Dor Laor and Avi Kivity know a thing or two about virtualization, hypervisors and operating systems. And Laor says there are big problems with all three. This [...]

Byline: Brandon Butler LAS VEGAS -- The combination of highly virtualized environments inside enterprise networks, along with an explosion of mobile traffic, are exposing the limitations of existing networks, and [...]

Byline: Linda Musthaler Like many IT leaders today, Larry Bradley, director of technology operations and projects for Sentrana, faced the reality that he and his team had to reinvent the [...]

Byline: Ellen Messmer Forrester Research predicts that with the 'bring your own device' (BYOD) trend expected to increasingly include laptops in addition to smartphones and tablets, the approach to managing [...]

Byline: Brandon Butler If an enterprise data center has a highly virtualized environment, a web portal for business users to request and access virtual machines and a method for tracking [...]

Byline: Brandon Butler About three years ago Host.net, a collocation and managed service provider, decided it was going to fully embrace the cloud as a new suite of offerings for [...]

Byline: Ellen Messmer Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald's specialty is security, and he not only keeps a close eye on what security vendors are doing, but he's an advocate for change [...]

Byline: Steve Taylor,áJim Metzler In our last newsletter we began to outline a plan for what networking sessions you should plan on attending at the forthcoming Interop conference. We will [...]

Byline: Ellen Messmer LAS VEGAS -- Sacking the old PC in favor of desktop virtualization is starting to grow and the information technology managers taking the lead on that trend [...]

Byline: Ellen Messmer LAS VEGAS -- While VMware users harbor little doubt about the cost savings and productivity gains brought by virtualizing their networks, security concerns still exist on many [...]

Byline: Brian Musthaler According to a recent Symantec poll examining adoption of virtualization within small businesses and its impact on their organizations, most companies have a strong interest but are [...]

Byline: Jim Metzler,áSteve Taylor Until recently when someone talked about virtualization they were most likely talking about server virtualization. While server virtualization remains the most popular form of virtualization, other [...]

Byline: Beth Schultz As virtual servers mature intro true enterprise platforms, so too must the virtualization management tools that sprang to life in this technology's earliest days. That will have [...]

Byline: Beth Schultz If the deployment rate of server virtualization continues at 2010's pace, virtual systems administrators are certainly going to have their hands full this year, many IT industry [...]

Byline: Beth Schultz Being that we're at the start of a new year and all, I thought I'd launch the 2011 newsletter by sharing predictions from a variety of network [...]

Byline: Tim Greene The indisputable economic benefits of cloud computing for certain applications drive businesses to consider building clouds of their own, but they need to make sure they are [...]

The industry reached a 'virtual' tipping point in 2009 when, according to IDC, the number of newly installed virtual machines surpassed the number of newly installed physical servers. This inflection [...]

Byline: Joanie Wexler The virtualization craze is hitting all aspects of IT, and wireless is no exception. á In the Wi-Fi arena, Meru Networks introduced virtualization years ago with its [...]

Byline: Jon Brodkin Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz's argument that operating systems are no longer the [...]

Byline: Jon Brodkin Windows and operating systems in general have lost their status as the center of innovation in the IT industry, said VMware CEO Paul Maritz, himself a former [...]

Byline: Jon Brodkin Desktop virtualization is hot -- ask any IT pundit. But it can also be confusing, because the market contains a variety of server- and client-based technologies for [...]

Byline: Jon Brodkin Is the operating system dead? If any tech vendors were going to make that argument, you would expect VMware to be at the top of the list [...]

Server virtualization is a growing reality in data centers. The economics are firmly behind the trend. Server virtualization reduces the total cost of ownership by reducing the number of physical [...]

Byline: Ann Bednarz Proponents of desktop virtualization have many reasons to advocate the technology over traditional PCs, including opportunities for reducing energy costs, centralizing desktop administration, increasing security and providing [...]

Byline: Beth Schultz As those of you who read the last edition of the Network and Systems Management Alert know, Denise Dubie has left the building -- but not the [...]

Byline: Jim Metzler In a recent newsletter we expressed our opinion that virtualization and cloud computing change everything. In that newsletter we focused on some of the technology and management [...]

Byline: Julie Bort Dell CEO Michael Dell contends that mobile devices will never kill the PC. Instead, he envisions a future where users own an increasing number and variety of [...]

Byline: Jim Metzler,áSteve Taylor This week Jim is at the Interop conference in Vegas where he is moderating 10 sessions. In his opening session, entitled Application Delivery 2.0, Jim will [...]

Byline: Jim Metzler,áSteve Taylor In our last newsletter we discussed one of the reasons why we think that virtual application delivery appliances are important. We will use this newsletter to [...]

Byline: Jon Brodkin It's a rough economy for established vendors and start-ups alike, but the IT industry has plenty of interesting newcomers. These 10 companies to watch are tackling pressing [...]

Everybody knows virtualization isn't just about VMware anymore. Many users are past the rush to server virtualization and now need to increase the benefits of the move. They need not […]

Server virtualization is an approach by which processor architecture is virtualized to allow multiple operating systems to run in isolation on the same hardware. The software that provides this capability […]

As more and more products enter the market, iSCSI is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to FC (Fibre Channel) SAN technology. Not only is iSCSI cheaper than Fibre Channel, but […]

VIRTUALIZATION technology, which allows multiple operating systems to run different applications on a single computer, has caught the attention of IT managers for its promise to let them better manage […]

'Desktops as a service' may be the next catchy buzzphrase if a new virtualization technology from MokaFive Inc. works as advertised. Bill Demas, CEO of the Redwood City, Calif.-based start-up, […]

A COUPLE OF weeks ago, my boss asked me if I would consider going to Interop. It's my custom to attend the SANS and RSA security conferences each year. But […]