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 ...

Management software makers never get a moment’s rest. As soon as a new technology takes off, they must get to work ramping up their management suites to tackle availability, fault and performance for ...

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 ...

Virtualization is transforming self-evident physical machines into multiple virtual machines (VMs), which can be cloned instantly at no perceived cost and moved seamlessly from one physical machine to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long ago, when servers still came one to a box, “sysadmins” spent all their time running from one machine to another, with boxes of tools and utilities designed to squeeze out every bit of performance ...

Strong demand for server virtualization management software is set to raise revenues for global virtualization software by 43 percent to hit US$2.7 billion this year, according to Gartner. In its ...

Forrester Research confirms virtualization is continuing to expand, and the technology introduces new complexities that threaten stability of services. Wasn't this supposed to get easier? Dave ...

*EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series about alternative desktop technologies for improving management and security of Windows and other desktop platforms. One Boston-based ISV is giving ...

John Swainson tells CA World 2008 attendees that enterprises are held back by concerns about lack of control over virtual machines Management technology will allow virtualization to achieve its full ...