While virtual servers have proven a boon in the data center, they don’t address the challenge of incrementally adding server capacity and automatically distributing load across them. As a result, the ...

If you’re fond of distro hopping or love working on different projects, you probably rely heavily on virtual machines. However, manually provisioning VMs for your pragmatic projects (or insane ideas, ...

It started out as a way to save money when Gannett Co. was adding new servers back in 2002. Now, says Eric Kuzmack, IT architect at the McLean, Va.-based newspaper publisher, “we have a couple hundred ...

Virtual machine provisioning has always imposed operational challenges. Monitoring datastore capacity and I/O load has proven to be very difficult. As a result, it's often neglected. This could lead ...

As part of the review of our plans for hosting a SaaS service at an IaaS provider, I had a little chat with a friend of mine who owns a security consulting company. Without going into the details, we ...

While talking with colleagues at EMA about the acquisition late December of Ardence by Citrix Systems, an interesting question came up – will this new model of virtual provisioning eliminate desktop ...

In my virtualization journey, I frequently find storage and memory as the most contended resources. This contention is usually based around memory growth by newer OSes and everyone wants more storage ...