One of the Web sites for which I am responsible is down. Determining why it's down is a bit of a journey. Just 10 years ago, figuring out what had gone wrong, fixing the problem and altering ...

While virtual servers have proven a boon in the data center, they don’t address the challenge of incrementally adding server capacity and automatically distributing load across them. As a result, the ...

IT monitoring is largely broken up into network monitoring and everything else. Trevor Pott looks at the fundamental underpinnings of both network and server and application monitoring. Sometimes it's ...

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2006--Life's essentials include food, shelter, and family--but what exactly are the essentials to good business? vizioncore, Inc., the leader in backup, ...

One of the most challenging tasks in the home lab is one the datacenter has solved ten thousand times over — how to monitor your infrastructure as it scales up. And it only scales up, as once you've ...

With one new product released, and one about to be, server virtualization is becoming a reality in the low-end server space. How can virtual servers help you? While the benefits of virtual machines on ...

In recent years, hardware virtualization has become commonplace in the computing industry and more available to end users. The idea behind it is a noble one. Why invest in allocating more server ...

The combination of free open source and virtual machines is hard to beat; here are some of the handiest virtual appliances Virtual appliances are great for the same reasons physical appliances took ...

Virtualization has become a cornerstone of modern computing, offering a myriad of benefits from cost savings to improved efficiency and scalability. Among the myriad of options available for server ...