VMware is integrating performance, capacity and configuration management with the launch of vCenter Operations, in an effort to give users more control over growing virtualized IT infrastructures, the company said on Tuesday.

Back in the old days when data center performance was largely a factor of the type and quantity of hardware available, resource management was a fairly straightforward matter. Not to say it was easy, but improvements to server, storage or networking, as

Budgeting is critical to virtualization success. To get the best cost savings and enjoy the benefits of virtualization, plan your budget for the hypervisor, hardware and more.

Surging revenue from storage, security and virtualization brought record financial results at EMC in the fourth quarter, the company reported Tuesday.

VMware's fourth-quarter revenue jumped 37 percent as businesses increased spending on its virtualization software, the company announced Monday.

With virtualization now a mainstream technology for most large businesses, the big players like EMC (VMWare), IBM and Microsoft are investing heavily in proprietary options for running multiple guest operating systems on a single machine.

One of the topics that we frequently wrote about in 2010 was how the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing was one of the primary factors driving the acquisition strategy of many vendors.

Don't just implement storage and leave it alone. It's critical to monitor storage performance with tools such as Iometer. Compare resource metrics and run storage reporting tests.

Being that we’re at the start of a new year and all, I thought I’d launch the 2011 newsletter by sharing predictions from a variety of network and systems management vendor executives.

If you know how your load-balancing service calculates the ins and outs of virtual server load balancing, you can tune clusters to better meet your organization's needs.