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The upstream oil and gas sector has benefitted from mining data sources to improve its exploration and production operations over the past decade. However, despite the wealth of data that [...]

Dave Rolston is an engineer and computer scientist who became interested in virtual work as far back as the 1960s. He operates Workingnowhere.com, a website focused on working virtually. Rolston [...]

Technology allowing businesses to hold virtual meetings with employees who are scattered across the country or even globally provides enormous benefits, including substantial savings in both travel time and cost. [...]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) announced that they are working together to beef up Casio Computer's internal infrastructure with a combination of Red Hat virtualization software and [...]

Byline: Ellen Messmer 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 [...]

With an annual technology spend of 1.5bn £, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) wanted to move 55,000 users to a virtual desktop platform to change the way employees worked [...]

Businesses should be looking to virtualisation and the cloud not only as a means of achieving server consolidation and cutting costs, but also as a way of improving the security [...]

I had just finished my review of VMware View 4.5 when I walked past a Chase bank branch opening up at the corner of Market and Second Streets here in [...]

Using virtualisation, datacentres can be optimally designed to run as many applications as possible. Virtualisation allows the IT department to separate applications from the underlying server, network and storage hardware. [...]

VMware vSphere 4.1 has a lot more moving parts. Memory compression and the addition of I/O controls for networking and storage, which join those already found in the CPU, are [...]

Video Enlivens Virtual Dressing Room Tobi, a small boutique in San Francisco, is the first to use a virtual dressing room that could appeal to larger retailers looking for new [...]

We focused on functional testing since performance testing between such different systems wouldn't have been useful. We set up volumes with thin provisioning, with initial capacities of 20GB and total […]

Desktop hypervisors offer companies a way to run multiple operating systems, and the applications tied to them, on a single client machine. Common use cases would be support staff, help […]

Over the course of a year, the engineers at Nissan's vehicle manufacturing plants in Smyrna and Decherd, Tenn., have implemented virtualization to consolidate 159 servers used in assembly and component […]

A German supplier of thin clients says it has moved into the No. 3 spot among the top thin-client suppliers and is offering a Universal Desktop that supports major virtualized […]

More than half of UK businesses (51%) have not adapted datacentre management strategies to meet the challenges of virtualisation,research has revealed. The rapid deployment of virtualisation technology has led IT […]

Microsoft's entry into the virtualisation supplier market will drive better products through increased competition, attendees at VMworld in Los Vegas said this week. 'Competition usually breeds better products, but let […]

One of the chief obstacles for using Second Life for business is that it's only available as a service. Second Life runs on server farms owned and operated by Linden […]

Sun MicroSystems wants to equip the next generation of Internet companies with its hardware and software and will offer virtualization products to help them keep costs down, make their data […]

Byline: Mark Gibbs I know you know this but I'll say it anyway: Virtualization is the hottest ticket in the IT biz. But some people don't understand there are multiple [...]

Apple for the first time is allowing users of its server operating system to run multiple versions of the software on a single machine -- paving the way for Mac-based […]

VMware seized the lead in virtualization by generating software that mimics the x86 instruction set, the internal instructions that operate Intel and AMD chips. But there are virtualization advocates who […]

Microsoft and longtime partner Citrix Systems on Tuesday said they have agreed to standardize their technologies for delivering Windows desktops and applications to thin clients on Microsoft's Virtual Hard Disk […]

Smartronix, an IT consultant to the government, has implemented virtualization in its data center, using VMware's ESX Server to achieve a 5-1 reduction in its server population. When it wanted […]

In the view of Mendel Rosenblum, chief scientist and co-founder of virtualization vendor VMware, today's modern operating system is destined for the dustbin, a scenario unlikely to please Microsoft or […]

Financial firms are turning to technologies like virtualization and grid computing in their data centers, as well as implementing "future-proof" designs to accommodate emerging technologies, the firms said at Wall […]