As the use of virtual operating systems increase for mission critical applications and servers across the enterprise, so too does the risk that those machines will fall victim to compromise. While a ...

Once upon a time, we used to think in terms of one hardware server equals one server operating system. Then, along came KVM, Hyper-V, VMware, and all the rest of the virtual machine (VM) hypervisors ...

If you want to back up virtual machines, the options may seem confusing. Methods used to back up virtual machines have evolved rapidly over the past couple of years, from an analogue of traditional ...

Users and vendors address the unique problems, and opportunities, involved in virtual servers with NAC-like functions and IPS-firewall appliances from such vendors as ConSentry Networks, Reflex ...

VMware has defined the market with its vSphere hypervisor and product ecosystem, followed closely by Microsoft Hyper-V and open source KVM and Xen. Virtualisation provides the basis for cloud (private ...

What is a virtual machine? A virtual machine (VM) is software that runs programs or applications without being tied to a physical machine. In a VM instance, one or more guest machines can run on a ...