Virtualization
AWS EC2 vs Azure: Cloud Services Comparison
Amazon and Microsoft are two giants of the cloud. As such, their cloud compute offerings often go head to head. But it can be difficult to decide which is best between Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 and Microsoft Azure VM for cloud computing services and virtualization.
What Is AWS EC2?
AWS contains a great many elements, components, and supporting systems within its overall ecosystem. Of its...
What Is Amazon ECS? Amazon Elastic Container Service
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable and speedy container management service that allows virtual environments to run, stop, and manage containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
In this article, we discuss Amazon ECS and what it is used for, as well as some of its benefits and features.
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What Is Azure VM? Windows Virtual Machine
A virtual machine (VM) is simply a digital version of a physical computer. As a virtualized instance of a computer, a virtual machine can execute almost all tasks a physical computer can, including running operating systems and applications.
Azure Virtual Machines are scalable, on-demand computing resources offered by Microsoft. In this article, we discuss Azure Virtual Machines and their features as well as some use...
vCenter vs vSphere vs ESXi: Comparing VMware Virtualization
VMware vSphere is VMware's virtualization platform, and vCenter and ESXi are both important components of vSphere. VMware vSphere, vCenter, and ESXi were initialized as different technologies for different purposes, but now they're combined into the vSphere platform. In this article, we discuss vSphere, vCenter Server, ESXi, and the differences between them.
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What Is vSphere?
vSphere is a...
Cloud Security for Virtual Machines & Containers
Cloud computing security, or cloud security, is a set of policies and technologies to protect the services and resources of the cloud computing system. Cloud security is a subdomain of cybersecurity, and includes processes to protect services, applications, data, virtualized IP, and the related infrastructure of cloud computing systems.
Virtualized environments, including virtual machines (VMs) and containers, present unique risks to cloud security. Here, we...
What Is A Virtual Server?
Virtual servers have the same capabilities as a physical server, but not the underlying physical machinery. A physical server can create multiple, separate virtual servers with a hypervisor or container engine using virtualization technology, and the instances share physical server resources like CPU and memory.
Not long ago, some feared a future of bustling data centers covering the globe. While that sounds hyperbolic, spatial considerations...
What Is a Container? Understanding Containerization
Containerization is the solution to the roadblocks posed by traditional virtualization. Since their inception, virtual machines (VMs) have enabled organizations to do more with less. A single physical device can contain several isolated, virtual environments through a hypervisor, and the benefits include reduced overhead, convenient mobility, and scalability.
Sounds great – but there’s one problem. Virtual machines are heavy units.
Because a significant appeal of virtualization...
On-Prem Infrastructure is Here to Stay. But What Workloads Go Where?
Yes, data centers and server rooms are changing. The explosion of cloud infrastructure solutions enabled organizations to adopt large virtual workloads while innovative server technology offers more in less space. Though effective in causing the downward trend we've seen in recent years, these trends hardly mean the end of on-premises infrastructures.
Through several years of trial-and-error, industry thought leaders are clear: the future of enterprise...