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 ...

Server virtualization is supposed to save buckets of cash, largely from server reduction. After all, consolidating some 20 physical servers to three host servers means less hardware, power and cooling ...

Virtualization is all the rage. By using virtualization technologies users can eliminate multiple physical servers and get the processing power they need from fewer boxes. That’s the idea anyway. But ...

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 ...

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, ...

Many of our past columns have centered on a recurring theme: increasing the value of IT without scaling cost, all while ensuring minimal risk to the business. In keeping with this theme, in this ...

Virtualization -- the move to go from real, physical hardware to virtual hardware -- is being seen as one of the "next big things" in IT. There are more virtualization options for IT departments than ...

In addition to the systems management heavyweights, you can look to a number of specialists for virtual machine management and automation The major players — including BMC, Computer Associates, HP, ...

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 ...

One upside to virtualization is that it puts more applications on fewer servers. One downside is that the availability of those servers become of greater importance.