Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

A new Network Controller and the same software-defined networking (SDN) stack in the Microsoft Azure cloud are among the significant SDN capabilities coming to Windows Server 2016. Microsoft's quest ...

Recently a client asked me to write a whitepaper about IP address management. At first the assignment seemed completely routine. But as I began looking at the details I realized that I was going to ...

If there’s one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it’s virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...

VMware is continuing its effort to remake the data center, cloud and edge to handle the distributed workloads and applications of the future. At its virtual VMworld 2020 event the company previewed a ...

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 ...

Virtual Server 2005 creates virtual machines on top of the Windows 2003 Server operating system, instead of at the hardware level like many of its competitors. Hardware-level virtualization ensures ...

Virtual Server 2005, which confusingly, is intended to run on top of Windows Server 2003 as its “host” operating system, is the logical follow-on to Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2004. Both Virtual Server ...

While the advantages of virtualization are widely acknowledged with regard to servers, desktops and storage devices, this is also leading military organizations to examine how virtualization can be ...

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 ...

How many virtual machines can you fit on a host server? That's a frequently-asked question when IT pros consider which hardware options to purchase for their virtual hosts. In this tip, I share things ...