Server Virtualization - News, Features, and Slideshows

• VMware prepares its virtualization stack for Docker

  VMware may have pioneered enterprise virtualization, but until Monday it had been relatively quiet when it comes to Docker containers, the popular lightweight form of application virtualization.

• Microsoft creates a container for Windows

  Hoping to build on the success of Docker-based Linux containers, Microsoft has developed a container technology to run on its Windows Server operating system.

• Google Cloud offers streamlined Ubuntu for Docker use

  Google has adopted for use in its cloud a streamlined version of the Canonical Ubuntu Linux distribution tweaked to run Docker and other containers.

• IBM climbs on the Docker bandwagon

  Docker fever continues to spread across the enterprise IT landscape. Following similar moves by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google, IBM is equipping its enterprise Cloud services to run the Docker virtualization containers.

• CoreOS's Rocket launch aimed directly at Docker

  Citing concerns around Docker's security model and its increasingly complex supporting platform, CoreOS is developing Rocket, an alternative to the open-source container technology.

• Room to grow: Tips for data center capacity planning

  Capacity planning needs to provide answers to two questions: What are you going to need to buy in the coming year? And when are you going to need to buy it?

• Burning questions: Virtualisation

  Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process -- as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware's ESX, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Xen can make IT more efficient and cost-effective, many of the virtualization advantages can be canceled out when data centers rely on technology and processes that haven't been updated for the virtualization age.

Whitepapers about Server Virtualization

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  Forrester Research: Total Economic Impact Of The Management Suite

  This paper presents a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of the User Virtualization Platform on organizations having shared server-based computing environment.

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  How Flash Storage Changes Everything

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  Riverview Hospital Improves Patient Experience

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  Robust Data Protection Solutions for Virtual Environments