Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University operating system researcher and chief scientist at VMware, is an approachable, brainy uncle kind of figure. For example, he pauses to think about a question instead of just automatically answering it. When we sat down together at VMware's VMworld user group m... Read More...

Storage vendors plan a bull run with 8-Gbit/s Fibre Channel gear in 2007, hoping to satisfy some customers' demands for higher bandwidth. QLogic and Emulex appear to have set two of the more aggressive 8-Gbit/s switch strategies with both vendors committing to at least end of 2007 shipments. Such... Read More...

Interested in jumping onto the virtualization bandwagon but still have concerns about the licensing implications? You're not alone. Microsoft's policies on licensing in virtualization environments are complex, to say the least -- but times are changing. Over the last year, the Redmond, Wash., ... Read More...