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  • Interview with Ian Hughes on Virtual Environments and Gaming for Product Development

    Virtual environments can be a rich form of communication, where people can brainstorm, share and discuss ideas, or collaborate on a virtual version of a product. They can also add a new dimension to customer interaction. Games can be used to simulate situations, as an enhancement for learning and teaching complex problems. Ian Hughes talking about mixing the physical world and the virtual world.

    Ben Linders
    on Aug 05, 2013

  • PaaS Is The Word

    This article presents a transition path to Platform-as-a-Service for IT. An exploration of the steps from pre-virtualization or virtualization through selecting and operating a PaaS.

    JP Morgenthal
    on Nov 29, 2012

  • The Azul Garbage Collector

    Azul's recently announced Zing product brings their Garbage Collector, which achieves both pauseless garbage collection and a high tolerance to the factors which typically impact collection and application responsiveness, to Java programs running on Intel and AMD based servers. This article takes a detailed look at how Azul has been able to achieve these design goals.

    Charles Humble
    on Feb 24, 2011

  • Open Cloud Will Make Business SHINE

    William El Kaim describes an Open Cloud Model based on agile principles and driven by an independent user community to define it further. He provides a sketch of a potential Cloud Operating System. He also defines the SHINE principles for transforming IT into BT (Business Technology).

    William El Kaim
    on Nov 02, 2009
  • Architecture & Design

    Introduction to Virtual Service Oriented Grids

    This article discusses the combination of three ideas, virtualization, service-orientation, and grid computing into a single concept and computing platform concept, "virtual service-oriented grids." In addition to history and definitions, the article addresses an approach, with an example, to analyzing and implementing this technology.

    Mark Chang Jackson He Parviz Peiravi Enrique Castro-Leon
    on May 06, 2009

  • The Emergence of Virtual Service Oriented Grids

    This article introduces and discusses three technologies, virtualization, service orientation, and grid computing, and then shows how they are combining to create new design and deployment options - "Virtual Service Oriented Grids." The business case for using this emergent model is also discussed.

    Jackson He Mark Chang Parviz Peiravi Enrique Castro-Leon
    on Apr 30, 2009

  • Beyond Consolidation: Building a Better Development Environment with VMware

    Virtualization is more than just server consolidation. Advanced virtualization eases management, enhances flexibility, raises network throughput, and improves redundancy and uptime.

    Mak King
    on Dec 10, 2008

  • More Than Just Spin (Up) : Virtualization for the Enterprise and SaaS

    Cloud services, such as Amazon EC2, have helped bring virtualization to the forefront of the IT conversation. Its full power however, also includes benefits such as high availability, disaster recovery, and rapid application provisioning. In this article, Contegix CEO Matthew Porter, discusses how virtualization can be used to bring these benefits to enterprise and Saas deployments.

    Matthew Porter
    on Aug 31, 2008

  • VMware Infrastructure 3 Book Excerpt and Author Interview

    VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide and Advanced Operations Guide provides a wealth of practical insights into setting up virtualization in todays corporate environments. InfoQ is proud to provide both a book excerpt and an interview with the authors Ron Oglesby, Scott Herold, and Mike Laverick.

    Scott Delap
    on Aug 29, 2008

  • Comparing the Cloud: EC2, Mosso, and GoGrid

    It was only recently that Amazon took cloud computing mainstream with the release of EC2. They are not the only game in town however. This new article takes a look at cloud server providers EC2, Mosso, and GoGrid.

    Craig Wickesser
    on Aug 04, 2008

  • Virtualization and Security

    While virtualization provides many benefits, security can not be a forgotten concept in its application. This new article takes a look at how virtualized servers effect data center security.

    InfoQ Staff
    on Jul 13, 2008
  • Development

    An Introduction to Virtualization

    It is easy to think that virtualization applies only to servers. In reality the recent resurgence of the concept is being applied at a variety of levels including networking, storage, and application infrastructure. In this introduction to the topic InfoQ dives into each area describing its uses as well as benefits and disadvantages.

    Scott Delap
    on Jul 02, 2008
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