A few weeks ago, i covered the importance of fragmentation, particularly with Windows servers. That article touched on the fact thatvirtualization seemed to worsen fragmentation. This article delves into that subject in more detail to explain further as well as to highlight a few user examples of the phenomenon.
As to why virtualization is such a [...]

Cloud computing is the most significant development for IT since the invention of the PC. It’s impact on IT will be similar to the paradigm shift Apple’s iTunes caused in the music industry, namely selling music by the song instead by the album. (In IT’s vernacular: the ever-elusive consumption of services by-the-drink … or utility [...]

A Server is a computer or device on a network that manages network resources. For example, a file server is a computer and storage device dedicated to storing files Any user on the network can store files on the server. A print server is a computer that manages one or more printers and a network [...]

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Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

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What are my freeware and open source options for managing virtual servers?
Companies such as Hyperic and Veeam have released products designed to manage virtual environments. Hyperic, which released its Hyperic HQ for VMware software last year, built capabilities to extend the company’s flagship software into virtual environments. The vendor wrote integrations into VMware’s APIs and [...]

Can tools that come bundled with virtualization hypervisors do the job?
The consensus is that the management tools that come bundled with VMware or Xen hypervisors won’t cut it in a large virtualization deployment.
While the software provided with, say, VMware’s hypervisor enables management of the hypervisor and that environment, industry watchers say the capabilities don’t go [...]

Hewlett-Packard continues to expand its commitment to the Itanium microprocessor by announcing Tuesday that it will begin offering blade servers based on the processor architecture.
HP is adding the Integrity BL60p, based on Intel’s Itanium 2 processor, to its BladeSystem platform, with shipments scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2006.

The new offering comes as [...]