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 ...

Network General has added modules to its NetVigil monitoring product, which let IT personnel peer into the workings of two popular virtualization products: VMware’s ESX and Microsoft Virtual Server.

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 ...

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 ...

Tremendous shifts in networking research and development over the last few years have resulted in a whole new class of networking devices, more widely known as Software Defined Networking (SDN) ...

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 ...