Don Boxley, CEO and Founder of DH2i, spent some time with me recently to discuss his company and DxConsole and DxTransfer. The company's goal is addressing the product limitations of Microsoft's SQL ...

In the complex and frustrating world of virtualization licensing, Microsoft has had its ups and downs and caused its fair share of IT aggravation. Licensing Microsoft products in a physical world has ...

A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft's Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by ...

DH2i, whose vision is enabling enterprise applications to move freely and transparently among physical, virtual and cloud environments, just announced a new approach to enable SQL Server-based ...

The advent of ubiquitous server virtualization is one of a relatively small number of technologies that can be extremely useful to companies of any size–even a company of a single employee. While full ...

(1) See server virtualization. Contrast with virtual host. (2) A virtual machine environment from Microsoft for Windows servers. See Microsoft Virtual Server. (3) Multiple servers that appear as one ...

Bad physical networking decisions. Unpatched systems. Too much access to virtual server management consoles. These and other problems can degrade the security of your virtual servers. If you're ready ...

In our Clear Choice Test, Virtual Server 2005 proved itself well worth the money because it lets you run multiple instances of Windows on the same machine. VMware (recently acquired by EMC) has long ...