VMware Inc. is tightening its embrace of the Kubernetes orchestrator for software containers today with the release of the Virtual Machine Service for its VMware vSphere 7 virtualization platform, ...

When provisioning virtual machines, either from a new build or during a physical-to-virtual conversion, questions will always come up on how many virtual processors to assign to the host. The standing ...

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 ...

The emergence of application containers has come with questions about where this technology fits in the enterprise technology landscape, and more specifically how it compares to virtual machines.

In preparation for VMworld Sept. 11-13, a host of vendors are jumping into the virtual machine management void to add new tools to help IT get a handle on managing the complexity of the virtual world.

Microsoft gives a 30 free trial on its cloud service, Azure. You can provision virtual machines at their data centers, including Linux OS. So I have these virtual machines hanging around for a few ...

IBM has introduced virtual deployment software for its cloud-computing stack that promises to virtualise an entire datacentre within minutes. The high-speed provisioning software, which is available ...