Thin clients, make way for a new competitor: hosted, virtual servers and desktops are finally changing the way corporate Australia manages its IT infrastructure. Whether known as apps-on-tap, utility ...

For the last few posts, I've featured my experiences and observations of the iland workforce cloud. This offers a hosted virtual desktop as well as hosted server infrastructure. One of the major ...

IBM last week announced a plan to create “virtual servers” for corporate users connected to mainframes running in its data centers, provided that the users are willing to run applications on a Linux ...

The Planet Server Cloud provides a combination of Intel Nehalem-based Dell servers, Oracle-Sun storage, and Cisco and Juniper networking, with virtualization provided by the Canonical Ubuntu Server's ...

Here's how to connect users to remote virtual machines with Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Services. Improvements to Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Release 2 include not only better performance ...

Around the same time that VMware updated its Workstation product with a new refresh build, Microsoft also updated both of its hosted virtualization platforms, Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual Server 2005 ...

Over the past few years, we've talked quite a lot about "the cloud," the difference between public and private clouds, and decisions CXOs make when growing or consolidating data centers. But we ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

If you run a medium-scale website, there’s a good chance you would have heard of Virtual Private Server (VPS). It’s one of the most popular web hosting servers and a favourite of many websites around ...