Automated self-pay tablets, particularly those mounted on dinner tables, have thoroughly infiltrated America’s restaurant chains. Even if advances in technology mean there’s now a shiny new “virtual ...

If you haven't already perused the Tech Update special report on server virtualization you might want to mosey on over to see what it's all about. In case you're on the last 10 minutes of your ...

If you want to back up virtual machines, the options may seem confusing. Methods used to back up virtual machines have evolved rapidly over the past couple of years, from an analogue of traditional ...

Solution providers upgrading network operating systems often run into compatibility problems. Many verticals use a specialized piece of software or a database that only works on an older version of ...

Scientists conducting experiments on addiction have shown that when mice are allowed to self-administer narcotics, such as cocaine, by pressing a lever, they will very quickly develop addictive ...

Virtual servers may make the utilization of physical servers more efficient, but that efficiency comes with a price. The physical servers that support VMs (virtual machines) have to be more powerful.

While virtual servers have proven a boon in the data center, they don’t address the challenge of incrementally adding server capacity and automatically distributing load across them. As a result, the ...

New research finds that 25% of all physical servers — and 30% of all virtual servers — are comatose. These are systems that have no activity in the last six months. The problem with comatose, or ...

(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 ...