Virtual machine density refers to how many virtual machines your virtual infrastructure host servers can maintain, while still performing well themselves and also providing enough compute resources ...

Cisco has tuned its Nexus 1000V virtual switch to be compatible with Microsoft's next-generation Hyper-V v3 hypervisor for Windows 8 Server. The shift means the switching software will work with ...

Here we are in 2016, and the industry is still having a discussion about what is virtualization. I thought we were long past that and were starting to talk about how virtual environments could be more ...

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Many IT professionals think of virtualization in terms of virtual machines (VM) and their associated hypervisors and operating-system implementations, but that only skims the surface. An increasingly ...

Long used in IT to extend computing system capabilities, hypervisor technology enables the creation of virtual machines (VMs). If you’re not familiar with VMs, they are essentially virtual computers ...

Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they place, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday. Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the ...

CIO.com – Quick: What part of IT data centers operations hasn’t been transformed by virtualization? After all, server virtualization’s value is well-established. Many, many companies have migrated ...

This article is intended mainly for developers who are new to Xen and who want to know more about it. The first two sections, however, are general and do not deal with code. The Xen VMM (virtual ...