This article is excerpted from Beginning Ubuntu Server Administration: From Novice to Professional, by Sander van Vugt, and is reprinted by permission of APress. All ...

There is one area where the DOS era’s “I own the whole system” attitude persists, and it’s a virtualization millstone: device drivers. You may not realize how ugly the problem and present solution are ...

If there's one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it's virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...

Virtualization is ready to support mission-critical applications, according to a recent customer survey conducted by managed hosting provider Rackspace. The survey revealed that 57% of respondents are ...

Real-time hypervisors — the central technology for workload consolidation — enable the safe execution of multiple workloads ...