Virtualization is an easy sell: Who wouldn’t want to turn underutilized physical servers into a humming little farm of virtual servers you can spin up or down at the drop of a hat? The dirty little ...

Virtualization the move from real, physical hardware to virtual hardware is being seen as one of the next big things in IT. There are more virtualization options for IT departments than ever before, ...

TVMware's technology will provide high availability without hardware redundancy, says Doug Baer, systems engineer. Top management likes the savings that virtualization has generated but is nervous ...

Both server virtualization and desktop virtualization use a software core called a hypervisor to run multiple operating systems on the same physical server hardware. Each OS is kept separate, with ...

While virtual servers have proven a boon in the data center, they don’t address the challenge of incrementally adding server capacity and automatically distributing load across them. As a result, the ...

In recent years, hardware virtualization has become commonplace in the computing industry and more available to end users. The idea behind it is a noble one. Why invest in allocating more server ...

Many of our past columns have centered on a recurring theme: increasing the value of IT without scaling cost, all while ensuring minimal risk to the business. In keeping with this theme, in this ...

(1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions (separate "virtual machines") within a single server. Widely used in enterprise and cloud computing datacenters, each virtual machine (VM) ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When Stephen Bakerman joined Owen Bird Law Corp., in Vancouver, British Columbia, nearly nine years ago, the IT infrastructure was a ...

perspective Particularly in these straitened times, people tend to assume server virtualization is one investment that will reduce IT costs. Is that assumption true? Yes and no. Historically, the ...

I'm in a bind and need some help brainstorming a solution. We just deployed an enclosure full of BL460c blades as Win 2K3 Terminal Servers, and through the entire discovery, architecture, approval, ...