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Server virtualization has become an indispensable tool for modern IT infrastructure, enabling organizations to maximize resource utilization, reduce hardware costs, and streamline management. Ubuntu ...

With the free Citrix XenServer virtualization platform, it's easy to create a highly available virtual server cluster; here's how High availability used to be expensive, requiring both specialized ...

Along with Dell and Red Hat, the software maker says it has developed a version of its 9i database software that can run across multiple Linux servers. Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now ...