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Consolidation in Virtual Reality

Server consolidation undertakings are being made simpler as virtual software vendors come up with new and better solutions to help enterprises tackle virtual environments.Deploying...

Virtual Tape Systems to Get More Capacity

Storage Technology Corp., Computer Associates International Inc. and IBM are each pumping up their mainframe virtual tape systems with added capacity and performance.The technology...

Avocent Manages Remote Servers

Avocents DSR800, released last month, is a cost-effective eight-port KVM switch that turned in good performance when I used it in the lab. In...

Virtual Server Under Way

Virtualization and other mechanisms of server partitioning are growing increasingly common on x86-based servers, and Microsoft will enter the game at years end, when...

Users Get Peek at Virtual Server

Microsoft Corp. is giving customers an early look at the code for its Virtual Server product, acquired when the company bought the virtual machine...

Microsoft Virtual Server Eases Migrations

Microsoft Corp. is giving customers a preview of the pre-beta code for its Virtual Server, which it acquired when it bought the virtual machine...

VMware Expands Virtual Horizons

VMware Inc.s Workstation 4.0 desktop virtual machine software provides a solid platform on which to run multiple operating systems.In eWEEK Labs tests, VMware Workstation...

Microsoft Patches Critical Virtual Machine Flaw

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday released a patch for a critical new flaw in its Virtual Machine Java implementation that gives an attacker the ability...

Run What You Need on Whatever You Like

Platform choice is a terrible reason for picking one computer over another. If theres one thing that a computer simulation should be able to...

Some Ideas are Born Great—and Get Greater

Some technologies dont get older, they get better. This weeks issue has a couple of prime examples: virtual machine technology and Ethernet. Both originated...