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 ...

The network team is being bombarded with configuration requests that can take days or weeks to handle, but luckily several approaches are emerging that promise to increase network agility, chief among ...

As the networking industry is being transformed by the next-generation virtualization approach called software-defined networking (SDN), the complementary architectural concept of network functions ...

Network functions virtualization (NFV) enables IT pros to modernize their networks with modular software running on standard server platforms. According to ETSI, the goal of NFV is to transform the ...

The promise of virtualized networks and services – brought to fruition by software-defined networks and network functions virtualization (NFV and SDN) – is bright. The use of virtualization technology ...

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Giving everyone with a wireless card access to the same places on the network creates risk. Guests at an office, for example, may need to access the Internet from the lobby, but they shouldn’t have ...

While network virtualization is a key technology, the vendor space is crowded. "With the Big Four leading the charge in data center virtualization, the pressure for startups to get deals done or merge ...

iTrinegy's Port Virtualization capability is similar in concept to the well-established practices of server virtualization and storage virtualization as it enables the network emulator's physical ...