There are a number of emerging and proposed standard protocols focused on optimizing the support that data center Ethernet LANs provide for server virtualization. Several of these protocols are aimed ...

Way back when virtualization was a new thing, virtual networks were simple connections that linked virtual servers and the occasional networking appliance. Now, however, things are different. Building ...

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 ...

Steve Herrod envisions a world where we build entire data centers using nothing but software. His dream isn't unexpected. Steve Herrod is the chief technology officer at VMWare. For more than a decade ...

Deep learning is a type of artificial intelligence that has been successfully applied in areas ranging from voice, image and text recognition to game playing, cybersecurity and emotion identification.

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Enjoying life in the digital world comes at a cost: our privacy. Every website we visit, where we are, how much we spend, and what cards we’re paying with – this is just some of the information about ...