In surveys of senior-level IT managers, security is consistently one of the top five concerns, along, specifically, with security related to the hot technology of the moment. Most recently those ...

On the surface, security questions surrounding virtual servers don’t seem much different than those for the physical machines on which they run. In fact, starting a virtual security audit by keeping ...

A few words in particular strike a chord with IT managers and this week a couple of vendors worked together to hit every one. Not only are the vendors offering a free utility (check out my slideshow ...

Malicious hypervisors. Subversive virtual machines. Live migration impersonators. Welcome to the world of server virtualization, where the threats are new and the traditional security tools like ...

Small and midsize enterprises are being advised to replace aging all‑in‑one shared servers with virtualized, segmented environments to reduce risk and improve resilience. This change, driven by ...

Cordoning off physical servers from one another in a datacenter is difficult enough. Trying to isolate virtual servers running on a single hardware box is even more complicated. Mercy Medical Center ...

Collier asks: "Can we not just amend what we already have and call it our virtualisation solution?" Rupert Collier, COMPUTERLINKS When VocalTec released the first commercial Internet phone software in ...

Server virtualization and cloud nirvana comes down to simple and automated provisioning and configuration of an application “stack” that includes business apps, middleware, databases, operating ...

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A former quality assurance employee of National Computer Systems (NCS) was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for reportedly deleting 180 virtual servers after being fired. Nagaraju ...