GUEST OPINION by George Tsoukas, ANZ Country Manager, Gigamon: The cloud is an extremely complex environment. To help ensure that organisations derive maximum advantage out of it, they need to be able ...

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Network General has added modules to its NetVigil monitoring product, which let IT personnel peer into the workings of two popular virtualization products: VMware’s ESX and Microsoft Virtual Server.

Such an architecture, in which the DMS is integrated separately into a virtual machine on a hypervisor and shielded from the outside, protects the user’s data in two ways: instead of being stored in a ...

Virtualization manageability can spiral out of control quickly if the rollout isn’t planned properly and the virtual-machine life cycle taken into account; tools from companies like Fortisphere and ...

Is VMware slowly becoming the new Oracle? That was the question being asked after the backlash to its initial vRAM licensing model at the launch of vSphere 5. VMware's somewhat quick retraction helped ...

While newly-discovered malware that attacks VMware virtual machines is no cause for undue concern, users can take some basic steps to protect apps and data, says security firm Trend Micro. Earlier ...

We have noticed that Azure Virtual Machines are shutting down or stopping unexpectedly in the middle of a session or during startup. There are various reasons why this issue would occur. Usually, the ...