Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on Thursday that its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service is now supporting Amazon RDS for SQL Server, along with other enhancements. In addition to the new RDS ...

How many virtual machines can you fit on a host server? That's a frequently-asked question when IT pros consider which hardware options to purchase for their virtual hosts. In this tip, I share things ...

Microsoft's Virtual Server doesn't aim to be a general-purpose solution to virtual clusters, but the efficient 2005 version will get many organizations thinking about ways to consolidate existing ...

In our Clear Choice Test, Virtual Server 2005 proved itself well worth the money because it lets you run multiple instances of Windows on the same machine. VMware (recently acquired by EMC) has long ...

Microsoft recently rolled out Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview. The update for Microsoft’s flagship server OS includes a number of features to improve and enhance managing virtual servers with Windows ...

If you run a medium-scale website, there’s a good chance you would have heard of Virtual Private Server (VPS). It’s one of the most popular web hosting servers and a favourite of many websites around ...

Bad physical networking decisions. Unpatched systems. Too much access to virtual server management consoles. These and other problems can degrade the security of your virtual servers. If you're ready ...