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: ...

In my last entry and the first part of this series we discussed some of the key capabilities to look for when selecting a server virtualization strategy, but as a friend of mine pointed out I never ...

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, ...

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 ...

In our recent research benchmark on data centers, Nemertes Research discovered many different approaches to server virtualization. Some companies are combining virtualization with blade servers in a ...