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Server virtualization – have you ever heard of it? You’d be surprised how important it is and how much it is used around the world. Now, since not many people are familiar with server virtualization, ...

Many IT organizations have already moved to a virtualized server infrastructure, while others are still operating a physical server model either for part, or all of their business application needs.

If there’s one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it’s virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...

In the last year the use of virtualization has continued to expand beyond its server roots and, more recently, virtual desktop infrastructure, into other areas of IT infrastructure such as networking ...

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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 ...

While virtual servers have proven a boon in the data center, they don’t address the challenge of incrementally adding server capacity and automatically distributing load across them. As a result, the ...

If you want to back up virtual machines, the options may seem confusing. Methods used to back up virtual machines have evolved rapidly over the past couple of years, from an analogue of traditional ...

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(1) See server virtualization. Contrast with virtual host. (2) A virtual machine environment from Microsoft for Windows servers. See Microsoft Virtual Server. (3) Multiple servers that appear as one ...

Although it may seem like magic, server virtualization is real, and it's giving admins unprecedented control over enterprise datacenters Server virtualization is one of those rare technologies that ...