Server virtualization can help fight server sprawl, make better use of compute power, curb energy bills, and improve data-center agility and flexibility.

Virtualization allows multiple applications to run in their own virtual environment within a single server. By deploying virtualization, Paulding County's IT department was able to consolidate its ...

For example, the type of storage controller (e.g., active/active symmetric load balancing versus active/passive) can affect overall virtual server performance. Similarly, thin provisioning, storage ...

Server virtualization offers a host of efficiencies, but storage administrators say it may open a can of worms on the storage side. Resulting headaches can include huge I/O bottlenecks for primary ...

Using Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 R2 Standard Edition lets system builders create virtual servers that make better use of high-powered hardware, save customers money and run multiple OSes.

Server virtualization is a growing reality in data centers. The economics are firmly behind the trend. Server virtualization reduces the total cost of ownership by reducing the number of physical ...

You don't have to jump in to server virtualization with both feet; just dipping a toe in with these open-source options will do to start.

Server-virtualization software imposes no constraints on the versions of Windows Server operating system (or Linux) that you place in each virtual machine (although a completely new version of ...

Famously, server virtualization allows a great deal of consolidation of hardware, and initially this was its biggest selling point. Using the v-word to consolidate x64 servers boosts processor ...

Server virtualization is a growing reality in data centers. The economics are firmly behind the trend. Server virtualization reduces the total cost of ownership by reducing the number of physical ...