Not so long ago in the vast majority of data centers and server rooms, every application or service resided on its own dedicated physical server. All the capacity of each of these servers — including ...

(1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions (separate "virtual machines") within a single server. Widely used in enterprise and cloud computing datacenters, each virtual machine (VM) ...

Microsoft, among others, offers a product that addresses this need: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Standard Edition. In this Recipe, I'll discuss the ins and outs of server virtualization, and explain how to ...

The advent of ubiquitous server virtualization is one of a relatively small number of technologies that can be extremely useful to companies of any size–even a company of a single employee. While full ...

How can small businesses know if virtualization is a fit? To answer this question, CDW surveyed nearly 300 small business Information Technology (IT) professionals through Spiceworks, a social network ...

Virtualization, one of the fastest growing trends in IT, lets any organization run multiple server functions on a single computer. Virtualization also makes it easier to start up new server emulations ...

A company whose virtualization software lets Windows programs run on Mac OS X will soon make the move to the more demanding server market. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Linux dominates the home lab conversation for good reasons. Containers, lightweight services, network appliances, and ...

Traditional database servers are relatively easy to track. You stand up a physical box and place the database on it. The part where a physical system is needed is monitored closely by business and ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...