DynamicOps’ Virtual Resource Management (VRM) tool is more of a provisioning tool for deploying and controlling access to virtual machines, and is less effective when it comes to the subsequent ...

VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition's thin-provisioning capability allows virtual machines to share disk-space allocation with other virtual machines. Configuring virtual machine instances with thin ...

Few industries have seen more technological evolution over the past decade than health care. As IT director for health care billing clearinghouse Navicure Inc., Donald Wilkins has seen­ -- and ...

Tom Henderson is principal researcher for ExtremeLabs and researches and tests enterprise-level hardware and virtual/cloud environments. VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition's thin-provisioning ...

There are several advantages conveyed by cloud computing that most IT professionals don't often consider. One such advantage is automated provisioning. The prime advantage of automated provisioning in ...

As virtualization technologies have matured and become ubiquitous in many organizations, IT professionals have begun to lose control of the number of virtualized servers they have to manage. Commonly ...

The concept of thin provisioning in storage has been around for longer than many people think. I first used space-efficient volumes in the early 1990s on StorageTek’s Iceberg storage array, later ...

LAS VEGAS--VMware has launched a new platform that it says will help companies better manage today's database environment that is increasingly difficult to manage due to the growing demand for "modern ...

The software-defined datacentre represents the current phase in the evolution of IT delivery to the business. It is an approach largely driven by virtualisation and the rise of VMware -- and to a ...

VMware vSphere 4 Enterprise Edition’s thin-provisioning capability allows virtual machines to share disk-space allocation with other virtual machines. Configuring virtual machine instances with thin ...