Find out about the differences between backing up virtual servers vs physical servers, best practices in virtual server backup and how to avoid crash-consistent database backups.

IT departments in Western Europe will deploy more virtual machines than physical servers for the first time this year, according to a new report from IDC. The research company found that the ...

So, it's time to replace our tired 2003 TS farm with a shiny 2008 R2 RDS farm.Leaving $$ out of it (cost of software, licensing, etc), would you stay physical or go virtual? I have new hardware ...

HP has announced software aimed at helping IT managers to manage physical and virtual servers as if they were the same.

There are certainly some differences between managing physical vs. virtual machines, but the overall concept is identical – you attach to the console and manage the machine.  Want to add ...

Still, in a standard setup, there isn't much difference between physical servers and cloud-based virtual servers. Scalability is one of the inherent advantages of VPS solutions.

Oracle databases perform just as well in VMware environments as in physical server environments, according to Confio Software.

Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they replace, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday.