A solid hardware foundation, customers who use servers and a couple of smart engineers are about all it seems to take for a solution provider looking to add server virtualization to its offerings.

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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 ...

Interest in server virtualization is increasing as vendors introduce products to help businesses optimize their data centers and reduce costs. VMware, an EMC company, rolled out a new beta version of ...

At work we have an entire rack filled with five high end servers, everything from a domain controller to an exchange server to an SQL server. They each have their role, but we're only supporting under ...

Virtualization's three essential missions -- as a client technology, as a server technology, and as a network technology -- are converging around the idea of cloud computing From its genesis in ...

In our Clear Choice Test, Virtual Server 2005 proved itself well worth the money because it lets you run multiple instances of Windows on the same machine. VMware (recently acquired by EMC) has long ...

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 ...

I thought my next home server needed a high-end CPU, but Intel’s N100 proved that most home server builds are far more ...

If certain server and virtualization vendors get their way, end-user companies will be buying many fewer individual servers in a few years, and many more integrated packages of infrastructure.