Many of our past columns have centered on a recurring theme: increasing the value of IT without scaling cost, all while ensuring minimal risk to the business. In keeping with this theme, in this ...

Maintaining employees' computers is one of the information technology department’s most thankless responsibilities. The desktop and laptop PCs that are fixtures of today’s workplace eat up IT staff ...

Red Hat last week laid out its server virtualization plan, and the details look impressive, but the timeline is long. The Linux vendor will start by rolling the open source Xen machine virtualization ...

Nortel plan targets data center, 09/10/07: Nortel plans to push deeper into the data center next year with products that stress virtualization and reliability, and dovetail with the company’s VoIP and ...

After spending $1.8 billion over the last five years on R&D and acquisitions, Citrix Software has brought together the parts needed to virtualize IT data centers from the desktop and server all the ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft on Wednesday detailed changes to its Virtual Server plans, announcing it will shift its next update of the software from a maintenance release to a paid upgrade. The Redmond, ...

Sun Microsystems unveiled this week a unified plan to bring virtualization technology to enterprises. The company said it will offer virtualization technology and related support services, including ...

Sun President/CEO Jonathan Schwartz will focus on Sun’s virtualization strategy during a keynote presentation at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. Schwartz will emphasize ...

The move comes less than a month after Oracle said it plans to acquire Sun Microsystems in a $7.4 billion bid. Virtual Iron, of Lowell, Mass., is a developer of server virtualization products, ...

Mark Lewis, chief development officer at EMC Corp., talked to Computerworld last week about the state of the company’s Invista virtualization software, which has yet to ship in bulk. Lewis also ...

Microsoft’s virtualization strategy is expected to take center stage during the second week of Microsoft’s TechEd conference series in Orlando. At TechEd North America 2008 IT Professionals, Microsoft ...

Advanced Micro Devices has released full details of technology called Pacifica that will let computers run multiple operating systems more easily, an idea the computing industry is embracing ...