Virtual machines, simulated PCs with their own operating systems running within another computer’s software, are super freakin’ cool. (That’s a technical term, I’m a professional technology writer.) ...

Virtual Server 2005 R2, or "Release 2" in Microsoft's nomenclature, sports improved performance, support for failover in case of hardware failure, clustering of virtual machines on a single host or ...

While we haven’t compared VMware backup solutions one to one, it is easy to understand based on features. Offers native backup and replication for VMware, Hyper-V, or AWS environments, i.e., work over ...

While VMware holds the lion’s share of the server virtualization market, several competing products are available — or are in the works. Here’s how a few of the key players stack up. Virtual Server ...

Touting support for both Intel and AMD virtualization technology, Microsoft released a second beta of its Virtual Server 2005 Release 2 Service Pack 1 (R2 SP1) this week. The capabilities of the free ...

Cloudy Tactics: In another effort to steer Windows customers toward Azure, Microsoft is offering a new tool that converts virtual machines between two formats. The goal is to help organizations stay ...