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Security concerns continue to dampen enterprise eagerness to move applications to the cloud, but there is another cloud computing risk that could bring down doom if not anticipated: bandwidth Read more...

The majority of U.S. businesses have deployed server virtualization in some form, but management errors are costing them some potential benefits. The errors revolve around capacity and workload Read more...

Budget pressures and technology developments are likely to accelerate the adoption of virtualization, but some industry observers caution that tools and techniques for managing a growing volume of Read more...

Users who have updated to the latest version of VMware's flagship ESX product found themselves in a quandary when they could not power up their virtual servers earlier this week. The culprit proved Read more...

Earlier this week, a Microsoft spokesperson said the company will announce licensing changes with regards to server virtualization next Tuesday. Indeed, current Microsoft licensing rules have been Read more...

Chris Whitener, chief security strategist with HP Secure Advantage, has some basic pointers for making sure that you have top notch virtualization security. For starters, he recommends using server Read more...

Virtual Iron has announced version 4.4 its flagship virtualization product, which includes a new feature called LivePower. Beyond just creating or shifting virtual machines around, LivePower makes it Read more...

In confirmation of what you probably already knew about blade servers, the market analysts over at Gartner have declared that while bade severs will continue to see breakneck growth in terms of Read more...

The Red Hat summit in Boston last week saw Red Hat opening a beta of its Linux-based oVirt hypervisor that weights in at less than 64MB. oVirt is based on the KVM - Read more...

SAN vendor Sanbolic, better known for its Melio clustered file system that allows Windows servers shared access to files, has extended its technology to VMware virtual machines. Called the Read more...