The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently proclaimed that data centers consumed 61 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2006. That’s roughly 1.6% of total U.S. electricity consumption and ...

Virtualization is mainly used in the IT environment and server rooms, but many utilities are exploring how to use virtualization without compromising on performance, availability, and reliability of ...

Although virtualization is still used primarily as a means to consolidate servers, the technology’s next big win could be in testing. Although virtualization is still used primarily as a means to ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

VM Factory guidance is a community effort to provide reference walk-through documentation for planning, installing, configuring, and supporting Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server in a virtual ...

Windows allows you to install other operating systems on your computer and run them in parallel to the Windows OS using Virtualization technology. This technology enables you to run another operating ...

So, if you use a Cloud PC and want to run local VMs, then you could enable the hypervisor on the Cloud PC and run Hyper-V. We will discuss this topic under the following subheadings. Requirements ...

Server virtualization through the use of software products such as VMware has been implemented to varying degrees in corporate IT, with some successful and some not-so-successful outcomes. This year, ...

One fear with migrating to software-defined networking (SDN) is that its reliance upon software could potentially invite malicious security threats and hobble the network. But AT&T, which has said it ...

Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although the opinions expressed here are strictly his own. He's focused on enterprise IT, especially cloud computing. However, Gordon writes about a wide ...

So I've been thinking about this fora while and if your business requires a web server, a file server, an email server, a DNS server, a DHCP server, etc etc etc and they are all hosted on various ...

Data centers accounted for 1.6 percent of total U.S. energy consumption in the U.S., making efficiency, which can be greatly enhanced with virtualization, a must The U.S. Environmental Protection ...