Data Center

Virtualization Security Assessment Guides Inadequate, Tools Lacking

There are almost no tools and only three inadequate how-to guides to assess the security of your virtual infrastructure.

VMware and Rivals Focus on Application Performance Management

VMware, Vizioncore, and other vendors and standards groups are quickly adding application performance management (APM) capability into their software and benchmarks as users are increasingly concerned about the availability of resources for applicat

Virtualization Staffing: Plan Now to Prevent Disaster

You may not need as many virtualization experts on your IT team as you'd think. But you will need a wide range of IT staffers who know virtualization basics, or else your project could be riddled with dumb mistakes.

Backing Up VMware: Don’t Use the Obvious Solution

Backup and recovery isn't tough; the best option just isn't the one you think of first. Or second.

Unified Communications with ROI in Mind

Unified communications (UC) is more than just technology; it represents an entirely new way of company communication and collaboration.

Confidential Data: You’re Giving Away Your Corporate Secrets!

In the hands of a skilled attacker, even the most innocuous piece of data can be used to attack the system and gain access to the crown jewels.

Rentable Virtual Infrastructure: Right For You?

A service provider supplies the equipment and manages the infrastructure and operating system, and you just pay monthly fees. Is rentable virtual infrastructure a smart fit for you? SaaS companies are among early customers.

Ranking RIM BlackBerry RF Radiation Levels by SAR: How Does Your Smartphone Measure Up?

Give Me a Virtual Desktop, or Give Me a Mallet

After a long day with a laptop that went haywire, I want a virtual desktop. And a heavy mallet. I know the PC support folks are with me on this, even though you probably won't hear vendors pitch it as a use case for desktop virtualization.

Can virtualization improve security?

For some IT shops, virtualization gives a false sense of security. The same threats from the physical world still apply in the virtual world.