Telecoms.com periodically invites expert third parties to share their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. In this piece Joe Marsella, CTO of Europe and EMEA at Ciena looks at how network ...

The rapid proliferation of virtualisation in recent years, growing from 40% of server workloads in 2012 to nearly 80% in 2016, makes it appear as if it’s a very recent technology. But it’s not quite ...

The soaring power of chips is throwing up all sorts of challenges for virtualisation and server scaling, says Carl Claunch. On the face of it, the significant increases in the power of processors is a ...

Despite the recession and the general pressure on IT budgets, the virtualisation sector has not been too badly hit. Organisations are still buying into the idea of cutting costs by reducing utility ...

While it is generally recognised that virtualisation is an important step in the move to cloud computing, as it enables efficient use of the underlying hardware and allows for true scalability, for ...

It is true to say that there has been a lot of talk about virtualisation over the years and you would be forgiven for thinking that every server and every storage system has had some kind of ...

With all the hype about cloud, containers and Kubernetes, you might be fooled into thinking that server virtualisation is dead. Although it might be a mature market, server virtualisation is evolving.

Jon Fell and Mhairi Mival of international law firm Pinsent Masons discuss the legal and regulatory issues that virtualisation can often create The use of virtualisation techniques has grown in ...

The telecommunications sector is undergoing a profound transformation, fueled by the advent of 5G technology and the growing adoption of network virtualisation. By delivering unparalleled speeds, ...

Telstra is increasingly turning to virtualisation as its core strategy to both manage the rising costs of — and growth in — its data centres, according the company’s CIO, John McInerney. Running for ...

Virtualisation has revolutionised the way we deploy applications in the datacentre, and arguably that stretches to disaster recovery. Server provisioning that previously took weeks or months is ...