This article is excerpted from Beginning Ubuntu Server Administration: From Novice to Professional, by Sander van Vugt, and is reprinted by permission of APress. All ...

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 ...

I have a Supermicro system at home that I have used as both an ESXI host (for VM testing) and now as a workstation since I am short a general-purpose machine at home. I am trying to figure out if/what ...

There is one area where the DOS era’s “I own the whole system” attitude persists, and it’s a virtualization millstone: device drivers. You may not realize how ugly the problem and present solution are ...

So in Part 1 of 2 of this article on VDI titled “Microsoft’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) (Part 1 of 2)” where I covered the Understanding Where VDI Fits in the Enterprise I gave a background ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

Virtualization is ready to support mission-critical applications, according to a recent customer survey conducted by managed hosting provider Rackspace. The survey revealed that 57% of respondents are ...

After many years of venerable service, IBM is retiring the xSeries server line. In fact, IBM is retiring the “Series” nomenclature altogether, rebranding their entire mainstream server line “System x.