Looking for an operating system to power the servers on your LAN? From hundreds of Linux distributions, I've hand-picked five ...

Whether you opt for bare metal servers or virtual machines, you'll need a rock-solid distro. These are my four go-to favorites. I’ve had several incarnations of the self-hosted home lab for decades.

Red Hat wants to accelerate the rate at which Linux devotees can use open source code to create hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines in their data centers and manage them with just a handful ...

Virtualization has become a fundamental technology in the world of computing, allowing organizations and individuals alike to maximize their hardware resources, improve efficiency, and enhance ...

IBM is expanding its “buy-as-you-need” utility approach to Linux on the mainframe. In an announcement today, IBM said it will offer customers capacity as needed by creating virtual Linux servers on ...

IBM last week announced a plan to create “virtual servers” for corporate users connected to mainframes running in its data centers, provided that the users are willing to run applications on a Linux ...

When my friend and Directions on Microsoft‘s editor-in-chief Mary Jo Foley wrote in late May that Azure Linux 4.0 would be available for bare-metal servers and virtual machines (VMs), I thought, “I’m ...

With Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, IT administrators can control all aspects of their virtualization environments, including compute, storage and network resources, as well as the VMs consuming ...