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  OnLive's train wreck: Office on the iPad

  Demos, like appearances, can be deceiving. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show, one of the media hits was OnLive Desktop, a service that provisions a Windows 7 desktop environment that includes Microsoft Office 2010 to the iPad over an Internet connection. For many, the idea of being able to run the full Office suite is very appealing, given some of the limitations of the iPad's native office productivity tools such as Apple iWork suite (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers), Quickoffice, and Documents to Go.

  By Galen Gruman | 07 February, 2012 22:11

  Tags: Windows 7, Windows, Virtualization, virtual desktop, tablets, Software as a service, software, SaaS, QuickOffice, operating systems, OnLive, Office Software, mobile technology, Microsoft Windows, microsoft office, Microsoft, iPad, internet, hardware systems, cloud computing, applications, Apple

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  EMC to flesh out VFCache with VMware integration, other additions

  EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards, integration with VMware and less expensive MLC flash media.

  By Stephen Lawson | 07 February, 2012 11:38

  Tags: VMware, Virtualization, storage, Pat Gelsinger, EMC

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  Nicira debuts with its SDN baby

  One of the most anticipated debuts of a startup company happens today when Nicira, a maker of network virtualization software, comes out of stealth mode.

  By Jim Duffy | 06 February, 2012 16:28

  Tags: VMware, Virtualization, software, SDNs, OpenFlow, Nicira, Lightspeed Venture Partners, internet, hardware systems, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance, cloud computing, cloud, Cisco, Capita

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  EMC launches 'Project Lightning' PCIe cards

  EMC today launched its long-awaited "Project Lightning," now called the VFCache product line, an initiative to sell PCIe-based NAND flash cards for servers as a caching element to increase I/O performance by up to 4,000 times.

  By Lucas Mearian | 06 February, 2012 08:32

  Tags: Virtualization, Storage Hardware, storage, EMC

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  The future of hypervisors

  The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools, each with different strengths and weaknesses.

  By Network World staff | 04 February, 2012 08:34

  Tags: Virtualization, insider, hypervisors, hardware systems, freemium, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance

• Motorola Atrix hints at a virtualized, cloud future

  Motorola announced the Atrix smartphone at the Consumer Electronics Show, and while many have been concentrating on its 4G connectivity and clever desktop dock that lets it run a cut-down Linux desktop on a full-sized monitor, nearly everybody has missed something very important.

  By Keir Thomas | 08 January, 2011 08:07

  Tags: Virtualization, operating systems, non-Windows, Motorola, Linux, internet, cloud computing, cloud, CES 2011, CES

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  Burning questions: Virtualisation

  Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process -- as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware's ESX, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Xen can make IT more efficient and cost-effective, many of the virtualization advantages can be canceled out when data centers rely on technology and processes that haven't been updated for the virtualization age.

  By Jon Brodkin | 26 October, 2010 00:52

  Tags: VMware, Virtualization, Storage Management, storage, server virtualization, server, security, Microsoft, hardware systems, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance

• Product Guide: SAN and NAS virtualisation

  In just a few short years, storage virtualization, also known as block virtualization, has proven its worth in the large enterprise and traveled that well-worn path from pricey boutique solution to affordable commodity. As a standard feature in all but the most modest mid-tier storage arrays, storage virtualization soothes a wide range of storage management woes for small and mid-size organizations. At the same time, dedicated solutions from top-tier vendors deliver the greatest ROI to large shops managing large SANs with intense data availability requirements.

  By Steve Norrall | 23 November, 2009 17:06

  Tags: Virtualization, san, nas

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  Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects?

  There's been a lot of discussion the past couple of days about an analysis by Guy Rosen, in which he estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is provisioning 50K EC2 server instances per day. He created this estimate by examining EC2 resource IDs and doing a time-series analysis on how much the IDs are incremented per hour.

  By Bernard Golden | 30 September, 2009 07:52

  Tags: Virtualization, cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, amazon ec2, amazon

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  QEMU virtualization reaches 0.11, brings 1400 changes

  Open source virtualization app QEMU has reached version 0.11 and brings some 1400 changes from 90 contributors.

  By Rodney Gedda | 30 September, 2009 14:06

  Tags: Virtualization, virtual desktops, QEMU, open source, Linux, kvm, emulation

Whitepapers about Virtualization

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  Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications: A Critical Step on the Journey Toward the Private Cloud

  Virtualization has evolved rapidly since it first began to be used on x86 servers in 2003, mainly for test and development. By 2007, the second generation, Virtualization 2.0, was under way, and the focus was consolidating production applications. Read on.