Virtualization Management


Study: 30 Percent of Servers Are 'Comatose'

Those systems are using energy but doing almost no work.

How Many Nines of Uptime Do You Need?

Service providers have many uptime guarantees. Which one you choose should be dictated on a workload-by-workload basis.

'Powerfully Simple' Windows Backup

Axcient offers full deduplication of data both locally and in the cloud.

Real-Life Azure, Part 1: Setting Up the Environment

In this first installment on moving to a hybrid cloud, our fictional company decides on the cloud provider and creates the infrastructure.

Google Offers 'Preemptible' Virtual Machines

They're cheap, but can be shut down without warning, and are automatically terminated after 24 hours.

Software-Defined Storage Survey: Flash Storage Still Lagging

DataCore's survey has lots of valuable insights.

Liquidware Labs Profile Unity 6.5 Beta Heats Up Application Layering Landscape

New features help it compete more directly with Horizon View.

External Applications with VMware Horizon Workspace and SAML

How to leverage Security Assertion Markup Language to pass authentication information to Salesforce.

Is VMware a One-Trick Pony?

Dan responds to questions about the virtualization giant's viability going forward.

Software-Defined Storage: The Challenge of Finding a Niche

The new Atlantis product, Hyperscale, works with existing storage to make it more efficient.

Software-Defined Control for KVM and OpenStack Environments

Do you know where all your workloads are?

5 Mobility Trends Worth Monitoring

Mobile apps have the ability to personalize a customer's experience, but be warned: they can also have unanticipated negative effects.

Containers Are the Next Game Changer

VMware, Microsoft announcements hint at the future for admins.

More Efficient Virtual Machines Through Intelligent Caching

Infinio promises greater vSphere performance.

Microsoft Pushes Out Docker Windows Client

It comes the same week that Docker got a round of funding that may have made it a $1 billion company.

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