The infrastructures of federal networks in many ways resemble a gated community — and Stepford, while familiar and perhaps comfortable, was built decades ago. It doesn’t stand a chance against the ...

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Having covered in recent columns what WAN Virtualization is and how it relates to WAN Optimization, let’s look at the benefits to the network that WAN Virtualization delivers for the WAN manager, ...

First, lets be clear: this comment is about server virtualization through ghosting - the business of using one OS to run one or more ghost OSes in lieu of applications each of which in turn is able to ...

During the past few decades, CIOs have stood at the center of one of the great technological revolutions in history: the replacement of the physical atom by the computational bit as the medium of ...

Virtualization is a key enabling technology for the modern datacenter. Without virtualization, tricks like load balancing and multitenancy wouldn't be available from datacenters that use commodity x86 ...

Virtualization is rarely as simple to implement and manage as it has been made out to be. Here's what to look out for when planning your organization's next virtualization project. No technology in ...

As the networking industry is being transformed by the next-generation virtualization approach called software-defined networking (SDN), the complementary architectural concept of network functions ...

If you’re developing applications that connect to multiple microservices, software-as-a-service (SaaS) APIs, legacy systems, and other third-party services, creating a robust testing environment can ...

A: Yes. Virtualization is one of the most widely interpreted themes I’ve ever known. Here’s my attempt to simplify the context of virtualization, which of course will add even more complexity to your ...