VMware launched an upgrade to its core software platform on Tuesday with the message that virtualization is ready to run any class of enterprise application, no matter how large. “Virtualization is ...

The result of a three-year research effort, Virtualization Engine (VE) will ship on some IBM eServer systems as early as next month, said Tim Dougherty, manager of the Armonk, N.Y.-based computer ...

As virtualization makes its way deeper and deeper into the data center, organizations are starting to leverage virtualization not only for the flexibility, efficiency, and reduced cost of ownership it ...

That's important, says a user at Marist College, because the school is relying on more virtual machines on its mainframe to supply computer science students with the environments they need. It is ...

As VMworld kicked off Tuesday, VMware CEO Paul Maritz contended that only virtualization can deliver the next transformation of IT, but he kept casting his gaze back to a technology invented in ...

Unisys has introduced a homegrown virtualization technology to boost performance for certain workloads on its ClearPath mainframe systems, including “modern” applications such as Java servers and PHP ...

IBM plans today to announce new server computers that behave more like mainframes and are priced as low as $1,500. The servers will be able to run as many as 10 operating systems on a single machine.

We’ve all read the stories; the mainframe is doomed. FedEx has announced its sunset of the final 20% of its mainframes by 2024, and surely other companies will follow suit. The data center is doomed ...

The University of Florida has bought a lower-end IBM z800 mainframe along with 32 Intel servers to investigate grid computing, a method of spreading calculations across groups of machines. The z800 ...