Is the EcoPOD the World’s Greenest Data Center?
HP introduced a new modular data center at HP Discover this week that resembles a double wide mobile home with a cooling system that the company says has 95% better efficiency than the monolithic data centers built over the past 20 years.
The cooling...
White Paper: The On-ramp to the Cloud and the Road to Get There
Virtualization is an on ramp to the cloud. But the road to the on ramp is one that organizations are still learning to traverse.
The modern IT organization will get there. The investments in virtualization are being made and they are not expected to s...
White Paper: Making the Convincing Argument for Virtualization
What do you need to do to build a case for virtualization? It can be a cultural shift for a company to adopt virtualization. It requires different skill sets and an approach that turns a data center into a network that optimizes an infrastructure accor...
SOAP is Not Dead – It’s Undead, a Zombie in the Enterprise
SOAP is dead. No it's not. SOAP is undead.
And the undead still inhabit the enterprise... in a big way.
I'm at Gluecon, the kind of event where passionate developers gather. These are people who for the most part never use SOAP. They work with REST ...
White Paper: Scaling a Reliable and Extendable Virtualization Infrastructure
Desktop virtualization is a hot topic throughout the virtualization industry. Organizations view desktop virtualization as a way to control costs and use limited resources to manage large-scale desktop infrastructures while increasing security and depl...
The Small Business and the Cloud [Infographic]
The small business owner is in that phase right now in which they are asking the young store clerk about all this cloud stuff.
It may be surprising but they are also asking about virtualization. Businesses are starting to understand that they can lea...
The Most Confusing Tech Term: 3 Reasons Why You Just Need to Get Over It
I've learned one thing when writing about virtualization in the past few years. Most everyone I know has no clue what it means.
It's more confusing than "the cloud," that other topic we cover quite a bit at ReadWriteWeb.
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Rackspace and Citrix: Virtualization for Smartphones and Tablets
Rackspace is offering a hosted desktop virtualization service with Citrix that has a clear intent. It provides a way to virtualize all those tablets and smartphones that people are bringing to work.
It also takes the burden off the enterprise, which ...
The War on Sharing [Infographic]
The war that the record labels is waging to protect its copyrighted music is mistakenly believed to only concern services that explicitly allow you to share music.
That's not so true anymore. The RIAA is broadening its scope. According to The Hollywo...
Poll: Does Cloud Computing Change the Role of the CIO?
The software companies that have risen to power in the past 40 years are talking more about the cloud. That has to be a factor of the business market and the interest on behalf of top IT executives, the ones who have in large part commanded the budget...
White Paper: Scaling Desktop Virtualization
Desktop virtualization is a hot topic throughout the virtualization industry. Organizations view desktop virtualization as a way to control costs and use limited resources to manage large-scale desktop infrastructures while increasing security and depl...
White Paper: Saving Your Servers from Disaster
In this article, we'll take a look at some of the key features of virtualization -- specifically VMware virtualization solutions -- that help defend your datacenter against disaster. Virtualization offers hardware independence -- a huge time saver in r...
