This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Performance management has ...

Just like with the SPEC.ORG and TPC.ORG server benchmarks, a number of tests for virtualization performance are emerging. Most server benchmarks are designed to measure the performance of a single ...

Last year, when I did my comparison of virtualization apps for OS X, many readers told me they wished I’d done more extensive performance testing. So this year, when I decided to compare the latest ...

We're starting to see more and more system designs that clearly have as a target virtualized workloads. Dell's the latest example. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although the opinions ...

There are already industry benchmarks for CPUs, mail servers and a wide range of other IT technologies — and by this time next year, virtualization users may have an industry-sanctioned benchmark.

What has driven the market for virtual servers more than the potential to squeeze several servers worth of performance out of just one physical server? It’s the relative ease with which most ...

Cisco Systems Tuesday unveiled new technology that will add virtualization, increased capacity and improved performance to its mainstay modular switch platforms. The San Jose, Calif.-based vendor is ...

With the introduction of Intel's new Quad-Core Xeon Processor 7300 series chips came a new technology from the company called Intel VT FlexPriority. It was designed to accelerate virtualization ...

Virtual Instruments wants to expand its infrastructure performance management capabilities with its acquisition of Xangati, a developer of hybrid cloud and virtualization performance management. San ...

Parallels has released version 5.0 of their "Desktop" virtualization package for Mac. Lets hope this solution's graphics enhancements fare better than those in VMWare's latest version of Fusion.

Intel recently announced the details of the company's forthcoming family of processors, codenamed Penryn, which is slated for release in the second half of this year. These new processors benefit from ...