2012 will mark an inflection point for the industry, as more IT organizations realize the need for high-speed, high-capacity networking to support virtualized workloads, large data transfers and newly converged storage and data networks, giving rise to the following trends:... Read More...

You would be hard-pressed to find anyone that does not agree that the rate at which enterprise workloads are becoming virtualized is increasing exponentially. In fact, most industry experts agree that over 80% of server workloads will be virtualized by 2018. In response, 2012 will mark a year in w... Read More...

The QEMU project has announced the release of version 0.15 of its system emulator software. QEMU can be used as a stand-alone desktop virtualization platform. but it can also be used for emulating guest hardware by both Xen and KVM hypervisors. Version 0.15 now offers full Xen support.... Read More...

In a March 17, 2001 article in Enterprise Storage Forum entitled "Is it Time to Add More Storage," [1] Ken Hess writes that thin -provisioning is "another good ‘in theory' practice that works everywhere except the production data center." Hess goes on to say that overprovisioning is rampant in data... Read More...

One of the questions I get asked frequently is, “Do I have to do anything unique or special to VMware® vSphereTM to optimize performance for the AMD OpteronTM processor?” The brief answer is no, not normally. “Out of the box”, vSphere has the capability to lay out a multi-VM structure that delivers ... Read More...

Part one of this article suggested that IO bottlenecks on virtual platforms may be due to the normal behavior of NTFS, the Windows file system. In a virtual environment, where you have multiple copies of NTFS running on the same physical server, there is the potential for competition among VMs for... Read More...

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Shai Fultheim, founder and CEO of ScaleMP, to find out more about what the company is offering and to find out more about the idea behind aggregation virtualization. And in this interview, we did just that.... Read More...

Stephen Spector, a great community leader for the Xen community for many years now, has left his position to become the community manager at Rackspace Hosting. If you've followed the Xen community for any period of time, you'll know how much time and effort Stephen put into that Web site and the co... Read More...