Virtualization

Wed, December 21, 2011 - The rapid adoption of the newest mobile devices -- especially the Apple iPhone and iPad and the Google Android-based equivalents -- will be a huge disruptive force in enterprise security next year. Not only will there be pressure to decide how to protect and manage these devices, which are growing as malware targets, the complexity of this task is magnified many times over because companies are allowing employees to use their own personal smartphones and tablets for business purposes -- what's sometime called "bring your own device" (BYOD).

Mon, December 19, 2011 - It is hard to put your finger on any one thing that sums up developments in the world of IT this year, but a speaker at one of Network World's recent IT Roadmap conferences had an interesting analogy that seems apt.

Wed, December 14, 2011 - The company said the data center will be housed by NTT Communications and support customers in Japan and the Asia Pacific.

Tue, December 13, 2011 - As part of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, William McCracken, chief executive officer of CA Technologies, spoke at the recent CA World conference to IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant about how the concept of 'business service innovation' is driving CA's business.

Tue, December 13, 2011 - Contextream, a developer of network virtualization software for cloud computing, this week announced the availability of Contextream Grid for cloud and managed hosting providers.

Tue, December 13, 2011 - CA Technologies has been selected by Logicalis UK, part of the international ICT solutions integrator, to help provide private cloud services for a number of its FTSE 250 and public sector customers.

Tue, December 13, 2011 - The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly. To get a handle on recent developments, Network World Editor in Chief John Dix corralled a panel of experts to assess where we are today and where we're going. The experts included Al Gillen, an analyst IDC who tracks virtualization developments, Kerry Kim, director of solutions marketing at SUSE, and Adam Jollans, program director of IBM's Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy.

Mon, December 12, 2011 - Software-defined networking startup Embrane this week came out of stealth mode to unveil its product and strategy for virtualizing network services.

Thu, December 08, 2011 - Will offer private, public cloud services for Microsoft apps

Wed, December 07, 2011 - One of the main reasons for deploying desktop virtualization is the security advantages it can provide, such as keeping sensitive data off the endpoint, according to Citrix.