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 ...

Building on the formerly named Quest vFoglight Pro virtualization management solution, Dell re-branded vFoglight to Foglight for Virtualization to make it the core platform to the Foglight family.

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 ...

I like to know what’s going on with the stuff I manage, so I’m a big proponent of heavily monitored infrastructures. I’ve written more code to monitor, manage, and track IT infrastructure components ...

Embotics – Unlike most technologies that go through a rigorous inspection and validation process, server virtualization for the most part, snuck in the back door of the data center while no one was ...

Server virtualization technology from vendors such as VMware and Xen is causing IT managers to address management challenges related to server provisioning, patch management and disaster recovery.

Today, monitoring a server is a task that sometimes feels like flying an Airbus just to check the weather — far more complexity and resources than the actual task. When I started looking for a server ...

Watching your home lab grow from a modest single-server setup to a dedicated experimentation and self-hosting workspace can feel extremely gratifying. Besides adding extra computing prowess for your ...

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 ...