i have a hypervisor where i am bonding interfaces, trunking vlans and bridging the different vlans for vm guests to connect to. call me old (skool), but i dont want a guest vm being able to "vlan hop" ...

Virtualization is software that separates a run-time process from the underlying infrastructure that supports the process. Server virtualization, for instance, separates the application from the ...

Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

Over the last few years, there has been a lot of discussion in the trade press about virtualization. While some of these discussions make it appear as if virtualization is a new topic, it is not. We ...

During her keynote session at Interop New York 2008, Hattar pulled the sheet off of virtualization's mysteries -- whether you consider it a "one to many" or a "many to one" technology -- defining it ...

Virtualization appeals to IT executives looking to maximize data-center operations, but they must answer 10 difficult questions before they have a chance to successfully roll virtualization out, a ...

This network processing will add a lot of overhead to Intel-based servers and require a lot more networking functionality for hypervisors. VEPA proposes an alternative approach where servers remain ...

Virtualization may be catching on in the enterprise space, but there are some who are still cautious of the technology over security and speed concerns. Paul Ducklin, head of technology for the ...

For as long as anyone in the networking world can remember, management of local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs) has been distinctly different. LANs were primarily the responsibility ...

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Network virtualization start-up Nicira is coming out of stealth mode today and it has an impressive set of customers who evidently believe that it can disrupt the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper ...