Virtualization will be the most-important trend for servers through 2012, but there are six basic best practices enterprises should consider before they virtualize their servers, according to Gartner.

Despite the broad adoption of server virtualization, many firms still struggle with the technical and organizational changes that virtualization brings. We see IT shops facing three major challenges: ...

When you put a new application release into production and it brings your servers down despite prerollout testing, you know your best practices are begging for an overhaul. Such was the case at ...

Although the EC2 console doesn't make it super obvious, you can assign multiple security groups to an individual VM instance. As such, some organizations like to create extremely granular security ...

RSA and VMware have released five best practices for locking down virtual environments and meeting compliance requirements. The steps comprise platform-hardening, configuration and change management, ...

New virtualization tools help speed up Linux virtual machines, scan for configuration best practices, and patch or update offline virtual machines As the virtualization wars continue, hypervisor ...

No organization is immune to disaster, whether it's ransomware, cloud outages or unexpected system failures. That's why having a solid disaster recovery plan is critical -- especially for Microsoft ...

HP announced on Tuesday new management and service solutions that extend the benefits of virtualization to the desktop. Included in the announcement is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution ...

As virtualization software continues to evolve, so do the options for network specialists, IT managers, CTOs, and CIOs. In order to help make the best decision for your organization, it’s important to ...