InfoWorld's New Tech Forum offers technologists a venue to explain how their innovative tech works in detail. In this first post, Delphix CEO Jed Yueh dives into database virtualization Welcome to ...

Not so long ago in the vast majority of data centers and server rooms, every application or service resided on its own dedicated physical server. All the capacity of each of these servers — including ...

Virtualization’s big push to fame was arguably kick-started by VMware’s Workstation product, which allowed individual users to run a bunch of OSes, versions or instances (similar to multiple ...

When server virtualization was first introduced, there was some resistance as a result of Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation, also known as FUD. Oracle was one of the biggest opponents to such ...

Tony Bishop, CEO of start-up IT consultancy Adaptivity and virtualization go-to guy, explains how to shift from a tactical to a strategic virtualization strategy. As an IT executive at Wachovia, Tony ...

There is a sizable knowledge gap between the working public’s knowledge of desktop virtualization as a productivity tool and server virtualization as advanced IT infrastructure, as compared to what IT ...