Hyper-V's snapshot feature may not be that useful as a backup plan, but they can help administrators cope with the pains of  virtual machines.

Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) has ramifications for data stored on virtual servers. This tip explains what UCS changes and how to cope with it.

Roy Illsley, analyst at Butler Group explains the bigges problems that arise when backing up virtual machines, and what you can do about them.

EMC's rebranded management line - now known as "Ionix" - is aimed directly at cloud vendors such as HP, CA and IBM.

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.