Management software makers never get a moment’s rest. As soon as a new technology takes off, they must get to work ramping up their management suites to tackle availability, fault and performance for ...

VMware has revealed several virtualization management products to be announced at VMworld Monday, but is so far shying away from any big-ticket announcements. VMware has revealed several new ...

Software firm Tripwire has launched vWire, a VMware management tool designed to reduce downtime in virtualized environments by allowing administrators to monitor configurations and correlate data. The ...

In a bid to erase distinctions between on-premises and cloud infrastructure VMware Inc. today introduced extensions to its vSphere virtualization platform and vSAN storage virtualization software that ...

Worldwide, 54 percent of large enterprises rate management of their virtual server environment as a critical or high IT priority, yet only 45 percent think their companies are doing an effective job ...

During Microsoft Management Summit 2008, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft, outlined the company's dynamic datacenter strategy. Part of Microsoft's ...

The sprawl of management consoles, the proliferation of data they provide and the rising use of virtualization are adding challenges to corporations looking to more effectively manage mixed Linux, ...

Despite its many advances, the modern data center is still a complicated mess of technology silos and components that are manually cobbled together and managed. This complexity imposes tremendous ...

VMware on Tuesday expanded the capabilities of its vSphere virtualization platform with increased scalability and performance with an eye on getting customers into cloud computing, and unveiled a plan ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Performance management has ...

VMware updated its vRealize cloud management platform with capacity and cost management capabilities and multicloud comparison tools, among other new features. Specifically, the vendor announced four ...

CapacityIQ, which tracks capacity across virtualized resources, and ConfigControl, which automatically tracks the configuration of virtual machines, will be announced at VMworld today VMware has ...