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 ...

For system administrators that rely on virtualization, moving virtual machines (VM) from one environment to another or even from one version of a virtualization platform to a newer version is a time ...

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 ...

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VMware, whose software lets an Intel server run several operating systems simultaneously, is expanding both its software capabilities and business ambitions. VMware, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif ...

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, ...

Microsoft said that on Dec. 1, it will enact new licensing terms for virtual "instances" running on Windows Server 2003 R2, due to ship by end of the year, and for the Windows Longhorn server upgrade ...

Is it set to take cloud computing by storm? Or just a storm in a teacup? While cloud computing may attract more than its fair share of hype, there's no doubting that the technology has already made ...

While some progress has been achieved in getting virtual machines to run across different types of hypervisors, more work is still needed to bring them to the level of portability that enterprises are ...