Virtualization freebies are available both from the open source community and from vendors such as Microsoft and VMware. Here’s a sampling. Permanent network TAPs for complex infrastructure Network ...

In our recent research benchmark on data centers, Nemertes Research discovered many different approaches to server virtualization. Some companies are combining virtualization with blade servers in a ...

Tek-Tools Software, a provider of IT resource management software solutions, announced a new module for the company's Profiler Suite - Profiler for VMware. The new module is designed to optimize ...

Not so long ago, if Underwriters Laboratories Inc. needed to add three additional servers worth of computing power in three weeks, the company just bought three new units, says Kent Walker, manager of ...

Barb Goldworm is the founder and president of Focus Consulting, a research and consulting firm in Boulder, Colo., that concentrates on systems and storage. She also is the conference chair of the ...