Bare metal hosting gives ecommerce businesses direct control over performance, security, and cost. These factors all have a direct effect on revenue. With bare-metal servers, businesses gain ...

If there's one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it's virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...

A recent Symantec survey of adoption of virtualization within small businesses revealed that most companies are failing to take even the most basic steps to reduce risks to their data. According to a ...

Microsoft, among others, offers a product that addresses this need: Virtual Server 2005 R2 Standard Edition. In this Recipe, I'll discuss the ins and outs of server virtualization, and explain how to ...

Clarkdale Volkswagen, a leading car dealership in the city of Vancouver, is about to celebrate its 50th year in business. It goes without saying that an IT strategy was not in place when the ...

In the age of virtualization, servers are becoming the hot topic as companies attempt to save money by consolidating physical resources by employing virtual ones. Lenovo, with its ThinkServer line of ...

A company whose virtualization software lets Windows programs run on Mac OS X will soon make the move to the more demanding server market. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

What's the current state of small budget virtualization for storage? Think: 2-3 hosts with n+1 redundancy, 256G RAM required to run all current services and next few year's growth. It should be a ...

We are working on a small VM implementation. It will start with a P2V phase of 9 hardware servers. We will then be splitting off the roles of these multi-role hardware servers onto multiple VM's. When ...

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 ...