For Monster.com, the initial benefits of virtualization in the data center were easy to see: With 500 virtual machines (VMs) running on 17 servers, Monster cut power and hardware spending and improved ...

Server virtualization, have you ever heard of it? You’d be surprised how important it is and how much it is used around the world. Now, since not a lot of people have knowledge of server ...

Vyatta let me know about the release of their newest edition of their network operating system. Vyatta Network OS V6.5 (VNOS) added support the use of Microsoft's Hyper-V as well as features to expand ...

Virtualization is a very broad topic that includes mechanisms to move many types of functions into a logical environment that can have enhanced characteristics over physical environments. Access to ...

Virtualization freebies are available both from the open source community and from vendors such as Microsoft and VMware. Here’s a sampling. Permanent network TAPs for complex infrastructure Network ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. If you have been paying attention to the news lately, you will have noticed that VMware announced a ...

Our New Data Center special package on Virtualization is live, and here is a great place to start: 10 must-have virtualization tools. From the intro: "I'd have to hurt you." Such was the response one ...

As with any server, security is a key issue for servers supporting hypervisors and a variety of virtual servers. Unlike tools for securing physical servers, however, tools for virtual security are ...

Big Blue plans to provide essential plumbing for its utility computing vision later this year, when it debuts technology that uses its Power5 chip. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Server-virtualization software imposes no constraints on the versions of Windows Server operating system (or Linux) that you place in each virtual machine (although a completely new version of Windows ...