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Ever since human beings landed on the moon, the state of technology in government appeared to be on a downward slope. Never mind that it was really the U.S. Government

Research from Principled Technologies suggests that a large UNIX/RISC-based, business-critical database application handling peaks of 10,000 queries per hour is delivering good performance. Using that metric, Principled Technologies set about

When you're in the process of establishing your cloud architecture, figuring out what can be moved to the cloud, and when it should be moved, is job one. That can

The moment many of you have been waiting for is here. We're pleased to announce the last two winners of the MacBook Air contest! Give a big hand to

The ability to migrate virtual machines from one physical server to another is a key reason businesses are choosing virtualization. Whether the migrations are for routine maintenance, balancing performance needs,

When NYSE Technologies launched its Capital Markets Community Platform it was heading into uncharted territory. As its first cloud platform, it would support a vast ecosystem of clients including small

What workloads are you running under virtualization, and what are you holding back? That's the question for ReadWriteCloud's October contest. Virtualization providers like VMware and hardware partners like Intel

Each time ReadWriteWeb holds a live chat with an expert panel, we get more attendees than the time before, and Tuesday was no exception. But not everyone gets a chance

Adopting cloud computing requires a fundamental shift in organizational culture and business processes--both within and outside of IT. In fact, managing this change may be the biggest challenge many

When's the last time you got "the call?" You know the one – the end-of-the-day "we need a few servers provisioned by tomorrow for a big client" call. The call

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre had a problem. It faced rising demand for IT services, but its main data center had nearly reached capacity. With a very tight budget, Sunnybrook's IT

As a Canadian leader that cares for 1 million patients annually, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre faced rising demand for services--but its main data center was reaching capacity. By virtualizing on

What were some of the most successful virtualization implementations, and what made them successful – other than cost savings? That's the question for ReadWriteCloud's October contest. The prize? A

Is your organization looking to get away from expensive, UNIX RISC systems? The key question is, can industry standard Intel-architecture based servers deliver the performance you'd need to consolidate applications

Is your organization looking to get away from expensive, UNIX RISC systems? The key question is, can industry standard Intel-architecture based servers deliver the performance you'd need to consolidate applications

You might feel stuck, if you have large and business-critical database applications on expensive UNIX RISC systems. The number of applications running on virtualized systems has jumped, but many businesses

If your organization runs large business-critical database applications on expensive UNIX RISC systems, you may have felt stuck. Even as the percentage of enterprise workloads running on virtualized servers has

It's hard to believe that another month is nearly over. September is just about over, and that means time is running out to win a MacBook Air. All you

Business survival depends on IT innovation. Enterprise cloud computing presents CIOs with opportunities to deliver that innovation by thinking like CEOs in order to play a strategic role in driving

Today, business survival depends on IT innovation. Enterprise cloud computing presents CIOs with tremendous opportunities to deliver that innovation--by thinking like CEOs in order to play a strategic role in

One of the more appreciated announcements to come out of last week's Microsoft Build 2011 conference was that Hyper-V, the company's hypervisor and virtual machine manager for high-end servers, would

Hosting business-critical applications on virtualized servers means that reliability is deeply important. If a hardware failure brings the machine to a halt, all of the services hosted on that machine

Reliability is a huge factor in choosing a server to host virtualized business-critical applications. If a RAM error brings your entire server to a halt, all the applications on it

We covered Microsoft's comments on virtualization and cloud computing earlier this week. Microsoft says that virtualization isn't cloud computing, but that opens up a new question: Just what is

What suggestions do you have for implementing Big Data sorts of projects using virtualization? We want to know, and you want to tell us – because if you have