For a long time, the prevailing wisdom of the day has been that IT organizations were better off with dumb pipes. After all, the applications should be doing all the management, and the only thing the ...

Microsoft today announced the "general availability" of its Accelerated Networking technology for Azure virtual machines, which is available for use with both Linux- and Windows-based VMs. General ...

VirtualBox and VMware default to NAT network type for virtual machines. You will be required to change the network type or forward ports if you are planning to run server software inside your VMs as ...

I have an odd setup, which seems pretty straight forward to me. I've got a virtual machine host running Linux KVM (Ubuntu Server 14.04). This box has a few NICs. eth0 is tied to br0, and that connects ...

BLADE Network Technologies announced at VMworld availability of VMready, which supports thousands of virtual switch ports for use with the HP 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c switch. BLADE’s VMready ...

Is it set to take cloud computing by storm? Or just a storm in a teacup? While cloud computing may attract more than its fair share of hype, there's no doubting that the technology has already made ...

There's more virtualization than ever before being installed in data centers. Each host server runs a hypervisor that includes a virtual switch — a piece of software that manages networked data flows ...

You can create Hyper-V VMs in Windows 11 using a built-in Windows app or a new developer-oriented tool. Both come with gotchas. Here’s how it all works. Though it may seem that virtual machines, a.k.a ...

Various brands and configurations of virtual machine network interface cards, or VMNics, are known to cause occasional repetitive errors resulting in slowing the CPU's processing capacity. Three ...