Server consolidation is a big deal. The "do more with less" economy in which we're living has companies wanting to rid themselves of old, insecure and unmanageable Windows NT file servers, Linux ...

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This article covers our experience with the Linux Virtual Server (LVS), a software package that provides traffic distribution on top of Linux. We will explain the architecture, operation and ...

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 ...

Virtualization is a buzzword that's been making its way around the corporate IT circles for a few years. On paper, virtualization sounds great—you can make full use of those unused CPU cycles, ...

With a shrinking IT staff and a flat IT budget, Boscov’s Department Store needed a way to increase the efficiency of deploying Linux virtual servers on its underutilized IBM zSeries mainframe. After ...

Microsoft Virtual Server Release 2 has begun shipping to manufacturers and is due for general release in the first week of December with a new pricing model and a number of new features, most notably ...

May 20, 2008 at 8:30 p.m. PT On May 2 nd of 2008 during its CommunityOne event, and concurrent with the initial release of OpenSolaris 2008.05, Sun released version 1.6 of xVM VirtualBox as a free ...

Imagine a time when processes and services are completely transitory and server-agnostic, carrying their dependencies with them; it's not far away Lately I’ve been causing a ruckus among readers who ...

Ask any Linux enthusiast, and they’ll tell you how awesome an operating system Linux can be. (Well, except Bryan Lunduke, who will say it sucks before he says it’s awesome.) For the desktop user, the ...

Server consolidation is a big deal. The "do more with less" economy in which we're living has companies wanting to rid themselves of old, insecure and unmanageable Windows NT file servers, Linux ...