• Thin provisioning was initially introduced at the storage level. However, recently VMware and Hyper V introduced thin provisioning at the Hypervisor level. Storage virtual provisioning gives an ...

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 ...

Labor is one of the largest costs enterprises face when setting up and managing infrastructure, especially servers and storage. Today, IT administrators can spend hours, if not days, configuring ...

Q: What’s the best approach to remotely provisioning our Windows servers? A: Provisioning servers has three automation goals, or layers: 1) Installing the OS; 2) Installing the system software which ...

Lately, I have been coming across many customers that are not leveraging the full potential of Citrix provisioning services simply because they are not configuring the product the right way. Basically ...

In the latest step toward utility computing, Veritas Software and Intel are joining forces to help companies better manage servers. The companies on Wednesday announced plans to bundle Veritas' ...

The San Jose, Calif.-based vendor, one of the top Fibre Channel SAN switch vendors, introduced its Tapestry family of server provisioning tools and wide-area file services (WAFS) technology, said Tom ...

Setting up a server for use in the network. It may refer to installing the operating system and other system software, as well as making adjustments in the software control panels, or it may refer to ...

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has created a proof-of-concept to reduce the time it takes to provision new virtual servers from a fortnight to about three hours. The university is one of a ...