Virtualization is mainly used in the IT environment and server rooms, but many utilities are exploring how to use virtualization without compromising on performance, availability, and reliability of ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently proclaimed that data centers consumed 61 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2006. That’s roughly 1.6% of total U.S. electricity consumption and ...

Although virtualization is still used primarily as a means to consolidate servers, the technology’s next big win could be in testing. Although virtualization is still used primarily as a means to ...

Virtualization is one of the most talked about concepts in it these days. A report from London, Ontario-based Info-Tech Research Group sheds light on the adoption of this technology and its near- and ...

Server virtualization through the use of software products such as VMware has been implemented to varying degrees in corporate IT, with some successful and some not-so-successful outcomes. This year, ...

In the era of big data, the web, cloud computing and the great explosion in the volume and diversity of data, organizations cannot afford to store numerous copies and reproductions of the data they ...

Virtualizing and consolidating data-center servers provides such clear a financial benefit that there are few companies of any size, in any industry that shouldn't virtualize at least some of their ...

One fear with migrating to software-defined networking (SDN) is that its reliance upon software could potentially invite malicious security threats and hobble the network. But AT&T, which has said it ...

Data centers accounted for 1.6 percent of total U.S. energy consumption in the U.S., making efficiency, which can be greatly enhanced with virtualization, a must The U.S. Environmental Protection ...