VMware may soon completely monopolise the virtualisation market, analysts warn, which would have ramifications for prices and vendor lock-in.

IBM will soon sell Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) equipment from Brocade and Cisco. Analysts say storage virtualisation deployments have the most to gain from such a move.

Server virtualisation has helped data centre managers improve efficiency across the board. But there's more you can do to improve data flows through across the network.

New Opteron chips could have vast ramifications for virtualisation. But they'll require some reworking of your applications.

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VMware will soon allow the virtualisation of Google's Chrome operating system. Is VMware starting some Linux-based mischief?

Virtualisation has strong ties to cloud-computing, ones that could influence how you use the technology.

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The 3.5 inch HDD I/O channel is fast becoming a bottleneck, particularly given its use in virtualisation projects,

Learn about two virtualisation techniques that you can use instead of server virtualisaiton.

Hyper-V's snapshot feature may not be that useful as a backup plan, but they can help administrators cope with the pains of  virtual machines.

Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) has ramifications for data stored on virtual servers. This tip explains what UCS changes and how to cope with it.

Roy Illsley, analyst at Butler Group explains the bigges problems that arise when backing up virtual machines, and what you can do about them.

EMC's rebranded management line - now known as "Ionix" - is aimed directly at cloud vendors such as HP, CA and IBM.

Organisations are leaping head first into virtualisation, given the technology's purported benefits.  But those that do it without considering security are taking wild risks.