CloudShare, formerly IT Structures, came out of stealth mode in December 2009 with a business plan to offer solution providers and ISVs selling software or appliances a simple way to deploy multiple, ...

Is it set to take cloud computing by storm? Or just a storm in a teacup? While cloud computing may attract more than its fair share of hype, there's no doubting that the technology has already made ...

Virtualization software vendors offer some interesting management tools that augment hypervisor software. One class of such tools is the “live-migration” tool, first implemented by VMware in its ...

While some progress has been achieved in getting virtual machines to run across different types of hypervisors, more work is still needed to bring them to the level of portability that enterprises are ...

SAN vendor Sanbolic is giving VMware virtual machines the ability to share access to application data. Storage-area network vendor Sanbolic is giving VMware virtual machines the ability to share ...

With virtualization taking over the computing world, enterprises everywhere are finding that virtual machines spread across an organization need to be managed as much as their physical computers are.

Docker containers are lightweight, self-contained packages capable of efficiently running various services. Virtual machines are more robust, emulate full computers, and require more resources, but ...