VMware offers a very comprehensive selection of virtualization products, with Fusion for the Apple Mac and Workstation for the PC. Despite the name difference, these two products offer effectively the ...

Using virtual-machine technology, you can split one high-powered server into several virtual slices. This way, each slice has its own partitioned-off operating system, disk, and CPU resources.

My Docker host is actually an Ubuntu virtual machine on my server. Within that Docker instance, I currently have 31 containers configured, with 29 of them actively running 24/7. The services that ...

Have you every wondered, "What is a virtual machine?" In these days of virtualization, the term is getting more common. Here's what it means.

While virtual machines are much easier to deploy than physical servers, Patrick Hale, deputy director of infrastructure services at the Michigan Department of Information Technology in Lansing, says ...

Virtual machine storage requires greater performance, capacity and resiliency than with physical servers and requires a careful choice between block and file access.

Server virtualization is based on the idea that server hardware has become so powerful in recent years that most workloads do not require a dedicated server. Instead, a number of virtual machines ...

Virtual Server does let you allocate the physical machine's resources across virtual machines. As shown in Figure 3, you can specify percentage levels for processor utilization, as well as ...

Choosing just enough virtual machines, but not too many, for a given server has always been a challenge. Running a set of virtual servers and the applications that they support on one physical ...

They're not. As Symantec stated in its new report, Threats to virtual environments, "Virtual machine hosting servers are not any [more] secure than any other type of server.