Papers tagged with "virtualization"
Changing the Game for Anti-Virus in the Virtual Datacenter
From its early experimental applications in the 1960s and 1970s, virtualization was first seriously implemented as a way to control IT capital and operational expenditures through server consolidation. Then in 2005, when Intel and AMD introduced chipsets to specifically support virtual hardware, vi...
Information Security, Virtualization and the Journey to the Cloud
According to ESG research, virtualization technology investments top the priority list in 2010 as nearly 60% of large and small organizations will increase their spending on virtualization technology. Why? Because its optimization and efficiency benefits are measurable and real. Given this, many fir...
Multi-Vendor Analysis: Cisco, EMC and VMware ignite the cloud marketplace
As businesses extend the benefits of virtualization from the data center to the desktop, they are laying the foundation for cloud computing: a computing environment driven by business policy that instantly reacts by automating tasks throughout the entire supporting infrastructure. Businesses are rap...
Virtualization defined - Eight different ways
This paper focuses on virtualization as it pertains to the data center; but before considering any type of data center virtualization, it’s important to defi ne what technology or category of service you’re trying to virtualize. Generally speaking, virtualization falls into three categories: Op...
