Type 1. A bare-metal hypervisor runs directly on the physical host machine and has direct access to its hardware. Type 1 hypervisors typically run on servers and are considered more efficient and ...

Google doesn’t talk about its server operations very often; most of what we know boils down to one word: “big.” The company lifted the lid ever-so-slightly yesterday (no April Fool), and gave the ...

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 ...

Today's computers make networking easy. Call the local cable or phone company to install a wireless router, change a few settings on each computer, configure a wireless printer and the network is up ...

There are few mid-to-large enterprises at this point that haven’t migrated at least some of their IT operations to the cloud. The cost-savings at scale are real, but shifting infrastructure outside of ...

Microsoft Tuesday joined the Open Compute Project, a Facebook-led industry consortium that's applying open-source principles to make data center hardware design as efficient as possible. Until a few ...

Some of the hardware Microsoft intends to introduce to the Open Compute Project through Project Olympus (Microsoft photo). The phrase “open source” nearly always modifies “software,” but it doesn’t ...

Technically speaking, you don't need to buy new hardware to build a Plex media server. Any old computer can get the job done, ...

Apple may have embraced the pro market on the Mac hardware side with the recent release of the iMac Pro and forthcoming Mac Pro, but the software side, well, that’s a slightly different story. A quiet ...