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 ...

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 ...

This year SDxCentral had the opportunity to work with a variety of vendors who provided details on their products for the 2014 Network Virtualization Report. To close the year, we decided to reach out ...

While system virtualization — and to a lesser extent, desktop virtualization — has held most of the virtualization limelight, there is also a growing trend in network virtualization. Most of you in ...

Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) moves switching out of the server back to the physical network and makes all virtual machine traffic visible to the external network switch, freeing up server ...