Virtualization freebies are available both from the open source community and from vendors such as Microsoft and VMware. Here’s a sampling. Permanent network TAPs for complex infrastructure Network ...

Business problem: Faced with massive expansion, a title company was struggling to maintain IT service levels. Its employee population had tripled to 1,000 people at 40 offices in the past year. Some ...

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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 ...

Tying together disparate disk systems in the data center is now taking on a new sense of urgency with the meteoric growth of server virtualization. End users looking to achieve the true benefits of ...

Big Blue plans to provide essential plumbing for its utility computing vision later this year, when it debuts technology that uses its Power5 chip. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Enterprise virtualization provider 3Leaf Systems announced Monday the release of its V-8000 Virtual I/O (input/output) Server version 2.0. This software, part of the 3Leaf Virtual Compute Environment, ...

Server virtualization is supposed to save buckets of cash, largely from server reduction. After all, consolidating some 20 physical servers to three host servers means less hardware, power and cooling ...