Virtualization — the move to go 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 ...

Once upon a time, we used to think in terms of one hardware server equals one server operating system. Then, along came KVM, Hyper-V, VMware, and all the rest of the virtual machine (VM) hypervisors ...

As the market for virtual-server managment heats up, VM vendors are responding to users' aversion to homogeneity by adding the ability to manage other vendors' virtual environments. Virtualization ...

Bad physical networking decisions. Unpatched systems. Too much access to virtual server management consoles. These and other problems can degrade the security of your virtual servers. If you're ready ...

• Thin provisioning was initially introduced at the storage level. However, recently VMware and Hyper V introduced thin provisioning at the Hypervisor level. Storage virtual provisioning gives an ...