Both server virtualization and desktop virtualization use a software core called a hypervisor to run multiple operating systems on the same physical server hardware. Each OS is kept separate, with ...

While virtual servers have proven a boon in the data center, they don’t address the challenge of incrementally adding server capacity and automatically distributing load across them. As a result, the ...

In recent years, hardware virtualization has become commonplace in the computing industry and more available to end users. The idea behind it is a noble one. Why invest in allocating more server ...

TVMware's technology will provide high availability without hardware redundancy, says Doug Baer, systems engineer. Top management likes the savings that virtualization has generated but is nervous ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. When Stephen Bakerman joined Owen Bird Law Corp., in Vancouver, British Columbia, nearly nine years ago, the IT infrastructure was a ...

At least that's what one startup vendor hopes solution providers will do. Pano Logic, of Menlo Park, Calif., this week unveiled a desktop PC virtualization hardware appliance which the company ...

Server consolidation is a high priority for many IT managers, and there are several ways to do it. One approach is to take a physical server and convert it — OS, applications and all — into a virtual ...

Many organizations continue to run Windows XP on many or all of their desktop PCs, either because migration typically requires costly hardware upgrades, time ...

So I have this client who has these setups where he runs a basic, vanilla CentOS on a variety of virtualized platforms. They run BIND 9.3, Radius, and TACACS. That's it. If you run this on hardware, ...

Server virtualization through the use of software products such as VMware has been implemented to varying degrees in corporate IT, with some successful and some not-so-successful outcomes. This year, ...