Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is a data center technology that supplies hosted desktop images to remote users. There is, as you can see, a huge difference between the two.

For applications and infrastructure, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing are massive demonstrations of the virtualization of applications, storage, databases, computing, networking ...

Every infrastructure is different, so there are no ready-made plans to move servers from the physical to virtual realm, but there are general rules that you can follow. The first concerns the use ...

Virtualization infrastructure has become red hot as applications scale across on-premises, cloud and edge platforms. Strategic partnerships are critical for companies seeking to capture market ...

In Phase 1, you conduct an operational assessment to see how far along you are toward being ready to accept a virtual infrastructure. In Phase 2, you plan and design your architecture. In Phase 3 ...

This shift is important, because it's nearly impossible to manually derive an accurate virtual infrastructure performance picture from a bunch of disk, array, or storage switch resource monitors alone ...

Virtualization will be the most important technology in IT infrastructures and operations up to 2010, according to Gartner, dramatically changing how IT departments manage, buy, deploy, plan and ...

Virtualization plays into that trend, because it can help users to deploy servers 30 times faster, on average, he added. “That has changed the nature of the business,” Bittman says.

Ever since VMware coined the term, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has conjured images of large data centers, beefy servers, centralized storage, and complex software stacks. It’s a given ...

If you need to justify the move to a virtual infrastructure, you have it: Money. And, now you can prove it by putting numbers to these five good reasons.

Confused about monitoring your virtual infrastructure for performance and security problems? Despite a wealth of available tools, you're not alone. The problem with monitoring performance of a ...

VMware’s vSphere virtualization platform is known for its reliability and offers built-in features like High Availability (HA) to ensure that physical server failures have only minor effects on ...