This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Performance management has ...

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, which won the Best of VMworld 'Gold' award for virtualisation management at VMworld 2011 Las Vegas, is a comprehensive virtualisation management software solution ...

New Hyper9 search-based management software discovers and manages virtual machines and their physical hosts; free download designed to complement to VMware Virtual Center tools available in September.

Virtualization -- which enables IT departments to run multiple systems and applications in just one machine -- is dynamically transforming the way IT resources are managed in enterprises. The "big ...

The sprawl of management consoles, the proliferation of data they provide and the rising use of virtualization are adding challenges to corporations looking to more effectively manage mixed Linux, ...

Management’s importance will increase coincident with the growing competitiveness of non-VMware hypervisors, especially Microsoft’s Hyper-V, industry watchers agree. “In coming years, Microsoft will ...

"Virtualization" has gained a reputation for both "must-have-it-ness" and mystique in the storage world. There is a perception that it is something we all must do if we are to have any hope of keeping ...

As Cameron Haight, research vice president at Gartner, says in a recent story on the challenges of virtualization management, “It’s important to look at virtualization in a holistic fashion [because] ...

Software firm Tripwire has launched vWire, a VMware management tool designed to reduce downtime in virtualized environments by allowing administrators to monitor configurations and correlate data. The ...