As IT managers virtualize their x86 servers and consolidate applications on a smaller number of systems, they’re demanding more from the hardware they buy: more memory, certainly, but also added ...

Virtualization has become a cornerstone of modern computing, offering a myriad of benefits from cost savings to improved efficiency and scalability. Among the myriad of options available for server ...

In this article, we focus on server virtualization, which eliminates the conventional, one application per server model and allows businesses to run multiple, virtual servers on a single physical ...

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 ...

Despite the broad adoption of server virtualization, many firms still struggle with the technical and organizational changes that virtualization brings. We see IT shops facing three major challenges: ...

Virtualization will be the most-important trend for servers through 2012, but there are six basic best practices enterprises should consider before they virtualize their servers, according to Gartner.

An idea being floated around at the office is to create a server lab for virtualization, to experiment with various hypervisors (Xen, ESX, HyperV, SunxVM). I've been doing some work on virtualization, ...

One of the biggest perks of home labs is that you can put together a couple of experimentation and self-hosting servers using all sorts of hardware, including SBCs, NAS, old PCs, or enterprise-grade ...

An interesting post from Gregory Ness, a senior director at Infoblox, posits that virtualization could neutralize the network and network equipment vendors. Ness points off to a discussion on the ...