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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the more challenging things about virtualization is the simple fact that virtual machines can move. That means that a virtual machine that was once physically close to the data it needs to ...

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 ...

VMware last week announced that Intel-based Macintoshes will be able to run instances of Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris as virtual machines. Microsoft, separately, said it would not develop a new ...