Dynamic server provisioning is an area of management that’s certainly one to watch if you want to efficiently use the servers, processing power and storage throughout your IT infrastructure. Picture ...

• Thin provisioning was initially introduced at the storage level. However, recently VMware and Hyper V introduced thin provisioning at the Hypervisor level. Storage virtual provisioning gives an ...

Next-generation data centers are supposed to be hotbeds of automation with on-demand everything. In this ideal, system administrators are almost obsolete, and the data center runs “by itself.” This ...

Labor is one of the largest costs enterprises face when setting up and managing infrastructure, especially servers and storage. Today, IT administrators can spend hours, if not days, configuring ...

Lately, I have been coming across many customers that are not leveraging the full potential of Citrix provisioning services simply because they are not configuring the product the right way. Basically ...

In the latest step toward utility computing, Veritas Software and Intel are joining forces to help companies better manage servers. The companies on Wednesday announced plans to bundle Veritas' ...

3PAR of Fremont, Calif., has added both bare metal provisioning and its Dynamic Optimization software, which helps align application and business requirements with data service levels on demand ...

Ubuntu developer Canonical is working on a new provisioning platform called Metal as a Service (MAAS), which will be used to activate new servers, on top of which a cloud can be deployed, founder Mark ...

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has created a proof-of-concept to reduce the time it takes to provision new virtual servers from a fortnight to about three hours. The university is one of a ...

The San Jose, Calif.-based vendor, one of the top Fibre Channel SAN switch vendors, introduced its Tapestry family of server provisioning tools and wide-area file services (WAFS) technology, said Tom ...