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When most people talk about the adoption of virtualization, they are really talking about the adoption of server virtualization. While there is no doubt that server virtualization is the most common ...

Network Appliance’s announcement of its latest V-Series storage and management systems highlight the further spread of a trend that nearly all major hardware and software vendors tout in some form or ...

VMware executives spent much of their time at VMworld explaining the workings and benefits of virtual appliances and virtual desktop PCs. VMware this week said it is launching a program to market and ...

Axcient this week expanded its cloud-based recovery-as-a-service offering with the introduction of a virtual appliance version of its data protection appliance, thereby freeing partners and customers ...

Vendors created the appliance market by delivering their software applications pre-installed on standalone servers. The goal was to simplify installation for the users and to make support easier ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Virtual appliances allow the vendor to pre-build the underlying OS and the UC Application, along with a definition of the virtual hardware resource requirements. A "virtual" appliance?!? What on earth ...

The idea — and benefits of — virtual appliances seem straightforward enough, but IT execs have been slow to adopt the technology. In the virtual appliance model, developers package applications with ...

Xangati just announced that it's updated its Xangati Virtual Appliance (XVA) architecture, a release named "XSR12U3." Its goal was making it easy for virtualization system administrators to remediate ...

VKernel is well known for their use of the virtual appliance. And the company is continuing down that virtual path with its latest offering - the VKernel Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer Virtual Appliance ...