In any datacenter, it's essential to be able to monitor network hosts as a way of ensuring their continued health. Even though server-monitoring products have existed for decades, legacy ...

Virtualization provides a fundamental shift in the way that Organizations manage their infrastructures. From processes such as provisioning, monitoring, patching and troubleshooting, virtualization ...

The package, called Virtualization Engine, is designed to make IBM's Power servers better able to juggle multiple loads and provides a foundation for an infrastructure that can respond automatically ...

With the recent initial public offering of VMware Inc. being greeted with a resounding cheer from investors, it’s clear that virtualization is increasingly important to businesses. Corporations are ...

IT managers don’t need a recession to appreciate free downloads of useful tools, but many vendors today are packaging scaled down applications and utilities as freeware to help customers take on ...

As the name suggests, system monitoring is the continuous monitoring of an information technology (IT) system by a system administrator. It includes the monitoring of applications, bandwidth, switches ...

ProHoster announced the introduction of an affordable virtual server offering designed to support organizations seeking ...

Big Blue plans to provide essential plumbing for its utility computing vision later this year, when it debuts technology that uses its Power5 chip. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...