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 ...

Parallels, maker of the popular Parallels Workstation software that enables Intel Mac users to run Windows or Linux within a virtualized environment, introduced its new Parallels Server. The new ...

In the last year the use of virtualization has continued to expand beyond its server roots and, more recently, virtual desktop infrastructure, into other areas of IT infrastructure such as networking ...

Microsoft has made a host of improvements to its core virtualization stack in the latest version of its flagship server. The next version of Windows Server is finally here! It's been a long time ...

perspective Particularly in these straitened times, people tend to assume server virtualization is one investment that will reduce IT costs. Is that assumption true? Yes and no. Historically, the ...

(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 ...

Virtuozzo for Windows creates multiple, isolated virtual private servers that can share hardware, software licenses and server management tools. SWsoft previously sold software to virtualize multiple ...

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 ...

Logan Kugler is a freelance tech writer based in Los Angeles. He has written about everything from IT security and data storage to mobile communications for more than 50 national and international ...

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 ...

Citrix senior architect Nicholas Rintalin wrote this blog entry today. A few minutes after it hit Twitter, customers started e-mailing me with the link: "Eli, have you read this? Citrix says not to ...