The Navy and Marine Corps must run all operating systems and applications in a virtual server environment, Navy Department Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen said in a memo released Wednesday.

Don’t let the word “virtual” in virtual servers fool you. You’re the only one who knows it’s virtual. From the perspective of the virtual server itself, the devices connected to it, applications ...

Agencies face new security management challenges when they adopt server virtualization. Server virtualization ' a technique of running multiple combinations of applications and operating systems on a ...

Users and vendors address the unique problems, and opportunities, involved in virtual servers with NAC-like functions and IPS-firewall appliances from such vendors as ConSentry Networks, Reflex ...

It's one of those rare cases where one plus one equals much more than two. Solution providers adding server virtualization to their practice are finding the need for new storage infrastructures, ...

Virtual servers may make the utilization of physical servers more efficient, but that efficiency comes with a price. The physical servers that support VMs (virtual machines) have to be more powerful.

Solution providers upgrading network operating systems often run into compatibility problems. Many verticals use a specialized piece of software or a database that only works on an older version of ...

The company's "N1" project is an attempt to make servers and storage look like giant pools of resources with computing processes swimming within. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Sun Microsystems plans to detail a timeline Thursday for N1, a sweeping software strategy that will let administrators create virtual mainframes out of their existing computer resources. The Santa ...

Turns out this virtual server fad might just turn into something. Market research company IDC is predicting that, by 2014, more than 70 percent of all the workloads running on a server will run on a ...

Cordoning off physical servers from one another in a datacenter is difficult enough. Trying to isolate virtual servers running on a single hardware box is even more complicated. Mercy Medical Center ...