Virtual machines have been common in mainframes for decades. Now they’re gaining ground as a way to more efficiently configure Windows and Linux blade servers. A virtual machine is software that lets ...

With virtualization taking over the computing world, enterprises everywhere are finding that virtual machines spread across an organization need to be managed as much as their physical computers are.

In our recent research benchmark on data centers, Nemertes Research discovered many different approaches to server virtualization. Some companies are combining virtualization with blade servers in a ...

Virtualization software vendors offer some interesting management tools that augment hypervisor software. One class of such tools is the “live-migration” tool, first implemented by VMware in its ...

Virtualization industry observers expect Microsoft to eliminate a licensing restriction that has hampered the mobility of virtual servers, perhaps as soon as next week. Under current Microsoft rules, ...

The new policies, which go into effect Dec. 1, give customers flexibility and simplicity when running Windows Server system products in virtual machine environments, Microsoft said. Under Microsoft&s ...