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Virtualization is a hot topic in IT circles right now, but it's often misunderstood by many in the higher education community. The term is broad, so we’ll break it down and demystify the topic.

You would be hard-pressed not to hear an IT department talk about virtualization. When virtualization was first born, IT departments went gangbusters using this revolutionary change to get better ...

I was reading "Are Containers the Beginning of the End of Virtual Machines?" In this article, Jeffrey Schwartz asks if containers, an implementation of OS virtualization and partitioning (OSVP), will ...

Ask these five questions before deploying virtualization in your school district. Ask these five questions before deploying virtualization in your school district. If you could implement a technology ...

It's one of those ideas that you read and say to yourself, "Why didn't I think of that?" In a modern PC, the BIOS contains the first program that loads on boot. This program knows where to find the ...

Virtualization is rarely as simple to implement and manage as it has been made out to be. Here's what to look out for when planning your organization's next virtualization project. No technology in ...

When we were choosing computer models, we chose the current model of Macs that give a good representation of what most people may have. Certainly, the faster models of these computers will perform ...

I found myself in an interesting Email exchange with a number of people. The topic of conversation was "does Google use virtualization?" I was fascinated when several people asserted that Google ...