Generally speaking, there are three typical classes of virtual machine (VM) architecture -- the hypervisor, host-based virtualization and para-virtualization, which are differentiated by the position ...

Two of the hottest IT technologies in 2010 are virtualization and cloud computing. Both are heavily evangelized in the industry as the “wave of the future” and the “next big thing.” This is primarily ...

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Winston Bumpus, Director of Standards Architecture at VMware. In this piece, Winston describes how the lack of standards inhibits customers from taking advantage ...

Previously, we covered the network benefits of WAN Virtualization and how WAN Virtualization delivers benefits “beyond the WAN” to areas like security, backup, file access, DR/business continuity, and ...

Is cloud computing better than virtualization? Well, the answer depends on an organization's needs. Each method offers different benefits to its users. For instance, cloud computing is great if your ...

It is difficult to list the top three challenges to the adoption of cloud computing because, above all, I am convinced that before broad adoption can occur, the IT industry has to come to a common ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have unveiled HyperQ, a system that brings cloud-style virtualization to quantum computing, allowing multiple users to share a single quantum processor ...