RSA and VMware have released five best practices for locking down virtual environments and meeting compliance requirements. The steps comprise platform-hardening, configuration and change management, ...

If you’ve been working with computers for a while, the acronym “DMTF” should be a familiar one to you. But if you still think of it as “Desktop Management Task Force,” then you probably aren’t aware ...

The storage infrastructure that supports a virtualized server environment can quickly become a roadblock to expansion. As the project grows, server virtualization places new performance and scaling ...

Virtual PCs have important uses, such as providing a dedicated environment for testing new applications or enabling the parallel operation of multiple operating systems. But the virtualization ...

What’s the best way to store and manage data in a virtualized environment? For IT administrators and system architects, this question is more than theoretical—it’s a critical decision that impacts ...

With the influx of data centers and the limited amount of server room real estate, virtualization is becoming more and more common in today’s enterprise. This is because consolidating servers and ...

If you’re like most leaders, you’ve likely felt the effects of the Great Resignation. With more and more people leaving their jobs, many have had to focus on combatting retention. But keeping your ...

Our data center is heavily virtualized with ~50 VMs per ESX host with ~20 ESX boxes configured the same way. Most of these VM's share a single vSwitch for network traffic which is connected to the LAN ...