Virtual machine density refers to how many virtual machines your virtual infrastructure host servers can maintain, while still performing well themselves and also providing enough compute resources ...

Many of today’s cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, edge computing and microservices, owe their start to the concept of the virtual machine—separating operating systems and software ...

Microsoft provides an interface for delegating different levels of control on Virtual Server, but there are many situations where it does not provide the granularity we need. For example, the Virtual ...

A virtual machine is a computing resource that uses software instead of a physical computer to run programs and deploy applications. It operates by running one or more virtual “guest” machines on a ...

Server consolidation is a big deal. The "do more with less" economy in which we're living has companies wanting to rid themselves of old, insecure and unmanageable Windows NT file servers, Linux ...

It started out as a way to save money when Gannett Co. was adding new servers back in 2002. Now, says Eric Kuzmack, IT architect at the McLean, Va.-based newspaper publisher, “we have a couple hundred ...

In the last installment of this article, we looked at building a basic development environment and took the first steps to learn about scripting for Virtual Server 2005 R2. We explored how to ...

Servers consolidated onto a physical server as virtual machines still need similar amounts compute, and storage resources. Therefore, it is essential to get the server sizing right for virtualization.

Virtualization is again at the top of the charts. VMware, an EMC company, last week made it easy for users to deploy its software on any Windows or Linux PC. XENsource, the open-source virtualization ...