November 10, 2009

How Cisco UCS reinvents the datacenter

If you could design a blade server system entirely from scratch, it might look a whole lot like Cisco's Unified Computing System

November 10, 2009

Test Center review: Cisco UCS wows

Cisco's Unified Computing System is a more manageable, more scalable, and essentially superior blade server system, despite 1.0 warts

October 5, 2009

Test Center: SANs tuned for virtualization pack nice surprises

Compellent, Dell, HP, Pillar Data, and roll-your-own Pillar/DataCore bring strong storage management features to XenServer, VMware, and Hyper-V environments

September 30, 2009

Microsoft's Hyper-V R2 is hot on VMware's heels

The much-improved Hyper-V R2 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 combo smooths the bumps to Windows server virtualization

July 2, 2009

Cloud control systems tame the ether

3tera, Enomaly, Kaavo, and RightScale take myriad and mixed approaches to managing virtual servers in the sky

June 17, 2009

Exclusive review: HP BladeSystem Matrix

HP's state-of-the-art blade server system and array of automation tools haven't squeezed all manual labor out of service provisioning, but they show the automated and adaptive datacenter is within reach

May 21, 2009

VMware vSphere 4: The once and future virtualization king

VMware's big new release turns the corner on machine virtualization, and toward next-generation management of virtual machines

March 5, 2009

Test Center guide: Virtualization for the rest of us

Virtualizing servers in a small to midsize business reaps many rewards, and the virtualization is free. Here's how

October 20, 2008

Dell primes PowerEdge servers for virtualization

PowerEdge R805 and R905 boast VM-friendly features, raise bar for HP and IBM

September 16, 2008

Citrix XenDesktop hits the VDI high notes

Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 leverages streaming applications, server virtualization, and swift tools for a scalable and manageable virtual desktop infrastructure solution

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