Virtualization has long been used to wring efficiency out of over-sized, under-used systems, but isolating applications and operating systems from the underlying hardware also produces immense ...

Virtualization, which reduces expenses and provides IT flexibility to organizations, also has security risks. These risks can be broken down into three categories: attacks on virtualization ...

Network virtualization is not only essential to a mature cloud infrastructure, it also beefs up security, argues VMware's Rod Stuhlmuller Virtualization has brought IT many gifts. It has made the ...

With the military's current mandates to increase efficiencies, virtualization offers multiple benefits to the armed forces. Projects underway at the National Security Agency are advancing its use, but ...

To achieve cost savings, scalability and other important benefits, many organizations have migrated applications and sensitive data to private clouds. However, concerns over how to secure a private ...

Server virtualization is a no-brainer--it's quick to deploy and easy to justify in terms of cost-savings--but too many companies are deploying the technology without considering the security ...

Virtualization creates an abstraction layer separating guest operating systems from underlying hardware, enabling multiple VMs to be hosted on a single server. Virtual machines may rely on trim ...

Businesses increasingly are relying on virtual machines to handle more critical data and tasks than ever before. The reality is that virtualization is growing as a platform for managing customer data, ...

Your old PC isn't aging badly — this Windows security layer is just too heavy for it, so you need to disable it.

I sometimes find myself talking about a topic and getting blank stares. Then a year or two later, everyone is suddenly talking about it. One such topic is security virtualization. Until now, those two ...

As the mainstream continues to adopt virtualization into their IT environments, the question of IT security still comes up. In fact, some worry that security might even pose a bigger problem within a ...