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 ...

(1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions (separate "virtual machines") within a single server. Widely used in enterprise and cloud computing datacenters, each virtual machine (VM) ...

VMware Server 2.0 Beta is the next evolution in the free-as-in-beer virtualization line. It's able to run on both Linux and Windows and virtualize a wide range of guest operating systems. We tested ...

Storage memory shortages and server hardware price increases are winning VMware customers via VMware Cloud Foundation memory tiering innovation.

The company, whose software lets an Intel server run several operating systems simultaneously, releases new software that supports a much wider variety of computers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

The new version of its lower-end server product is updated to run atop versions of Linux from SuSE, MandrakeSoft and Red Hat. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Virtualization is a buzzword that's been making its way around the corporate IT circles for a few years. On paper, virtualization sounds great—you can make full use of those unused CPU cycles, ...

Although not usually considered a player in utility or grid computing, VMware has quietly and steadily built up a leadership position in virtual machine technology--software that allows customers to ...

Without any press announcement or ticker-tape parade, VMware decided to quietly remove the "server" from the VMware ESX Server product line. In case you missed it, VMware's hypervisor product is no ...