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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Here's how to connect users to remote virtual machines with Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Services. Improvements to Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Release 2 include not only better performance ...

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 ...

Around the same time that VMware updated its Workstation product with a new refresh build, Microsoft also updated both of its hosted virtualization platforms, Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005 ...

VMware has launched an offering which it claims will increase the reliability of hosted services and applications for end-user organizations. On Wednesday, the company launched its Service Provider ...