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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 ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared in the July 2011 issue of infoTECH Spotlight. Virtualization has transformed the economics of running data centers. Indeed one could say that without virtualization, ...

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 thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

After spending a lot of time under the hood of ESXi, we have concluded that traditional backup methods are going to need a tune-up in that environment. The fastest, most reliable and maintenance-free ...

Software distribution is taking an interesting turn with virtual appliances, which combine an application and underlying operating system. If you have ever had the experience of trying out a new ...

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 ...

It is one of two new virtual tape libraries the company is introducing this week aimed at bringing down the cost of the technology. The FalconStor VTL Virtual Appliance is a pre-configured, ...

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 ...