(1) See server virtualization. Contrast with virtual host. (2) A virtual machine environment from Microsoft for Windows servers. See Microsoft Virtual Server. (3) Multiple servers that appear as one ...

(1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions (separate "virtual machines") within a single server. Widely used in enterprise and cloud computing datacenters, each virtual machine (VM) ...

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Business problem: Faced with massive expansion, a title company was struggling to maintain IT service levels. Its employee population had tripled to 1,000 people at 40 offices in the past year. Some ...

In our recent research benchmark on data centers, Nemertes Research discovered many different approaches to server virtualization. Some companies are combining virtualization with blade servers in a ...

Lots of companies these days are stretching their hardware and energy dollars by consolidating print, file, DNS, and Web servers on virtualization platforms such as VMware. But not many companies ...

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Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

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Server virtualization through the use of software products such as VMware has been implemented to varying degrees in corporate IT, with some successful and some not-so-successful outcomes. This year, ...