In this four-part series, Ars looks at various aspects of the real-world experience of rolling out virtualization in the enterprise. The series focuses on the popular VMware package, but the lessons ...

Vendor certifications help showcase a person's expertise in a technology, tool or vendor, and they can help IT administrators secure promotions and pay increases. But certain certifications -- such as ...

“What we like best about virtualization is the dynamic nature of it,” say Nelson Ruest and Danielle Ruest, authors of Virtualization: A Beginner’s Guide. “The server is no longer constrained in its ...

To update an old IT saying about IBM and job security, few IT managers may get fired for choosing VMware to virtualize their infrastructure. VMware, after all, is the safe bet: The company currently ...