Thin clients, make way for a new competitor: hosted, virtual servers and desktops are finally changing the way corporate Australia manages its IT infrastructure. Whether known as apps-on-tap, utility ...

IBM last week announced a plan to create “virtual servers” for corporate users connected to mainframes running in its data centers, provided that the users are willing to run applications on a Linux ...

(1) See server virtualization. Contrast with virtual host. (2) A virtual machine environment from Microsoft for Windows servers. See Microsoft Virtual Server. (3) Multiple servers that appear as one ...

The Planet Server Cloud provides a combination of Intel Nehalem-based Dell servers, Oracle-Sun storage, and Cisco and Juniper networking, with virtualization provided by the Canonical Ubuntu Server's ...

If you run a medium-scale website, there’s a good chance you would have heard of Virtual Private Server (VPS). It’s one of the most popular web hosting servers and a favourite of many websites around ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

Does server virtualization work for small-to-medium-sized companies? You bet. As you know, virtualization software allows you to run multiple virtual machines on the same physical host. Each virtual ...

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 ...

According to Forrester's study, enterprises are more interested in cloud-based virtual servers than smaller businesses are, turning the conventional wisdom of cloud computing adoption on its head ...

How will you install your next server? What if the uninterruptible power system (UPS) is maxed out, the air conditioner can barely cool the server room or another rack cabinet won’t fit through the ...