A new IT buzzword (that is, hot on the heels of the now fairly worn "cloud") is software-defined networking. Driven by the need for data center networks to be more agile and policy driven than ...

In part one, we covered the extensible switch in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012; in part two we looked at network virtualization. We also looked at System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 and ...

Companies of all sizes are looking to virtualization as a seemingly game-changing scenario. Server consolidation, energy efficiency, increased capacity, and simpler management and deployment are all ...

Virtualization has swept through the data center in recent years, enabling IT transformation and serving as the secret sauce behind cloud computing. Now it’s time to examine what’s next for ...

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 ...

With the release of Windows Server 2012 yesterday, Microsoft significantly updated its Hyper-V virtualization platform. Available both as part of Server 2012 and as a free (as in beer) standalone ...