How the virtualization concept not only extends the life of legacy industrial systems, but also helps insure and secure the plant floor network and all the data on it. Until the past decade, corporate ...

And although virtualization is not a brand new concept — its theory’s roots date back to the 1960’s and IBM Corp. — the technology really began to pick up steam in 2005 when the industry's two largest ...

It is easy to think that virtualization applies only to servers. In reality the recent resurgence of the concept is also being applied to networking, storage, and application infrastructure.

The Microsoft spokesperson seemed to agree by saying, “Virtualization has been used heavily by developers, and through MSDN licensing any version of Windows Vista – including Home and Home ...

These abilities are the drivers behind virtualization. Despite the technology being some 40 years old, having first appeared on mainframe computers in the 1960s, now is high noon for virtualization.

This goes beyond the desktop virtualization concept talked about today, in that the user need not have a distinct physical PC. A smartphone would suffice, maybe even a TV, Bishops says.

So as for server virtualization: great concept, not a differentiator for very long, kind of like rack and pinion steering and electronic ignition (no other choice after a short time lag).

The concept of extreme virtualization began with several longer-term planning exercises that Farpoint Group participated in over the past few years, and at the root of each of these was a single ...

That billion-dollar industry of virtualization gave server administrators room to breathe. Virtualization made it possible for IT teams to work with what they had to get more capacity.

This goes beyond the desktop virtualization concept talked about today, in that the user need not have a distinct physical PC. A smartphone would suffice, maybe even a TV, Bishops says.