Many of our past columns have centered on a recurring theme: increasing the value of IT without scaling cost, all while ensuring minimal risk to the business. In keeping with this theme, in this ...

Maintaining employees' computers is one of the information technology department’s most thankless responsibilities. The desktop and laptop PCs that are fixtures of today’s workplace eat up IT staff ...

IT professionals are the ultimate multitaskers – balancing data center priorities, equipment issues and end user needs and making sure that everything and everyone is perfectly synced and functioning ...

In this article, we focus on server virtualization, which eliminates the conventional, one application per server model and allows businesses to run multiple, virtual servers on a single physical ...

Tony Bishop, CEO of start-up IT consultancy Adaptivity and virtualization go-to guy, explains how to shift from a tactical to a strategic virtualization strategy. As an IT executive at Wachovia, Tony ...

Red Hat last week laid out its server virtualization plan, and the details look impressive, but the timeline is long. The Linux vendor will start by rolling the open source Xen machine virtualization ...

Traditional database servers are relatively easy to track. You stand up a physical box and place the database on it. The part where a physical system is needed is monitored closely by business and ...

Microsoft’s virtualization strategy is expected to take center stage during the second week of Microsoft’s TechEd conference series in Orlando. At TechEd North America 2008 IT Professionals, Microsoft ...

After experiencing QuoteCreep (tm) when specing an SMB virtualization/server consolidation solution, our ISV came up with this: To virtualize a 10 server farm (typical server is HP-ML350 G4) mix of: ...