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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Virtualization has long been the backbone of modern IT infrastructure, setting the stage for ...

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 ...

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 ...