IT departments in Western Europe will deploy more virtual machines than physical servers for the first time this year, according to a new report from IDC. The research company found that the number of ...

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Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they place, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday. Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the ...

HP has announced software aimed at helping IT managers to manage physical and virtual servers as though they are the same. As well as this latest software, a number of other announcements were made at ...

New research finds that 25% of all physical servers — and 30% of all virtual servers — are comatose. These are systems that have no activity in the last six months. The problem with comatose, or ...

VMware has announced upgrades to its Virtual SAN (VSAN) functionality in the vSphere 6.5 virtualisation environment, with enhancements that include support for containers, physical servers via ...

If there’s one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it’s virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...