I run CentOS 5.4 on a Dell T300 with a 3x1Tb RAID5 (PERC6) (extremely low budget here- and we need disk). I use CentOS' Xen + libvirt to run virtual boxes. The host disk performance looks good (I know ...

The AMD-based VMs use Azure Boost, Microsoft’s system for offloading infrastructure tasks from the host CPU to specialized ...

VMware Workstation supports two mechanisms to create copies of VMs: full and linked clones. [Click on image for larger view.] A full clone makes an exact copy of the files that make up the VM. In ...

The cloud service provider says the new class of virtual machines provides better performance and price-performance than Arm- and Intel-powered VMs from its top competitors. This is not the first time ...

When I initially setup our VMs, they ran pretty quick. It has now been about a year and performance is not what it used to be. The measurable stuff seems to all be inline. The CPU is not getting hit ...

Azure offers Virtual Machines (VMs) with local NVMe drives that deliver a tremendous amount of performance. These local NVMe drives are ephemeral, so if the VM fails or is deallocated, the data on the ...

Here's a look at how the cloud leaders stack up, the hybrid market, and the SaaS players that run your company as well as their latest strategic moves. Encrypting data in and out of memory, as you ...