VMware acquires several management software assets from EMC’s Ionix portfolio, potentially equipping the virtualization vendor with management and automation capabilities for the cloud. Despite being ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Performance management has ...

Worldwide, 54 percent of large enterprises rate management of their virtual server environment as a critical or high IT priority, yet only 45 percent think their companies are doing an effective job ...

Software firm Tripwire has launched vWire, a VMware management tool designed to reduce downtime in virtualized environments by allowing administrators to monitor configurations and correlate data. The ...

In a bid to erase distinctions between on-premises and cloud infrastructure VMware Inc. today introduced extensions to its vSphere virtualization platform and vSAN storage virtualization software that ...

During Microsoft Management Summit 2008, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft, outlined the company's dynamic datacenter strategy. Part of Microsoft's ...

There’s been a lot of debate over the relative stages of virtualization that various IT organizations are in today. It’s generally accepted that most are past the relatively simple stage of merely ...

The sprawl of management consoles, the proliferation of data they provide and the rising use of virtualization are adding challenges to corporations looking to more effectively manage mixed Linux, ...

Despite its many advances, the modern data center is still a complicated mess of technology silos and components that are manually cobbled together and managed. This complexity imposes tremendous ...

Virtugo Software, a company providing software products to help manage solutions for virtualization platforms, announced the availability of virtualSuite r6, a management platform for virtualized ...

VMware on Tuesday expanded the capabilities of its vSphere virtualization platform with increased scalability and performance with an eye on getting customers into cloud computing, and unveiled a plan ...