Organisations are leaping head first into virtualisation, given the technology's purported benefits.  But those that do it without considering security are taking wild risks.

Before you can secure your virtual environments, you must be able track down your machines.

Hyper-V R2 includes hot-add and remove capabilities.

This guide explains how to use Hyper-V R2's new Cluster Shared Voumes feaure.

Some very big name enterprises are taking their entire server farm into the realm of virtualisation. But some pundits maintain that mainframes still have their place.

NICTA has won an innovation award with its gigabit wireless chip. [ + ]

The company behind the intrusion prevention tool, Snort, will soon launch a virtualisation security product.

While virtualisation eases many common IT pains, it makes delivering applications over the network much harder. We explain how to cope.

Ingram Micro Australia and New Zealand to join as a member of SNIA ANZ. [ + ]

Learn how to use VMMCA - Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer - to configure your host servers for use with Hyper-V R2.

Hyper-V can be managed via its included scripting capabilities. This tip explains how to automate and configure your virtual environments using Powershell or VBScript.

Learn how server virtualisation can help you design networks to better support applications.

VMware's vStorage API for Data Protection can help you back up your precious virtual machines. This guide explains how.

The internet industry is preparing for the wider deployment of the new IP version 6 (IPv6) addressing protocol. [ + ]

Virtualisation can be a daunting technology to implement. This guide explains how to build and configure a virtualised environment, and the things you need to watch out for.