Paul Rubens

The news that Californian public cloud storage service provider Nirvanix is shutting down operations has sent shockwaves through the industry. For

Research house Gartner recently published its Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure, and a very interesting reading it makes. The

This month's big virtualization technology news is that VMware is acquiring Virsto, the storage hypervisor maker, for an undisclosed sum. Virsto's storage

There have been rumors of something going on at VMware and parent company EMC for a while, and on December 4th the two companies came clean: a major

While this column normally discusses the benefits of virtualizing your workloads, sometimes it's important to know when to Just Say No. Cesare Garlati, VP

The James Bond franchise is almost 50 years old, and among the long-established traditions of these movies is the Bond villain — that dastardly chap who

We've talked a lot in this column about Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization, but how much is it actually being used? Veeam's quarterly V-Index hypervisor

With VMware's VMworld virtualization jamboree in San Francisco just a few days away, it's time to brace yourself for a deluge of new virtualization

When you think of server virtualization you probably think of big grunty physical hosts and powerful but lightweight hypervisor software. But what's not

"Ever wished you could simply compress a copy of a running VM and save it to disk. Well now, you can!" OK, it sounds like a rather cheesy TV commercial,

The server virtualization and public cloud service market is dominated by three players: VMware, Microsoft and Citrix, and three hypervisors: vSphere,

Businesses like cutting costs, and they will spend money on things that can help them achieve that. This goes a long way toward explaining why so many