Q: What’s the best approach to remotely provisioning our Windows servers? A: Provisioning servers has three automation goals, or layers: 1) Installing the OS; 2) Installing the system software which ...

Citrix senior architect Nicholas Rintalin wrote this blog entry today. A few minutes after it hit Twitter, customers started e-mailing me with the link: "Eli, have you read this? Citrix says not to ...

While virtual servers have proven a boon in the data center, they don’t address the challenge of incrementally adding server capacity and automatically distributing load across them. As a result, the ...

Lately, I have been coming across many customers that are not leveraging the full potential of Citrix provisioning services simply because they are not configuring the product the right way. Basically ...

In the latest step toward utility computing, Veritas Software and Intel are joining forces to help companies better manage servers. The companies on Wednesday announced plans to bundle Veritas' ...

3PAR of Fremont, Calif., has added both bare metal provisioning and its Dynamic Optimization software, which helps align application and business requirements with data service levels on demand ...

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has created a proof-of-concept to reduce the time it takes to provision new virtual servers from a fortnight to about three hours. The university is one of a ...

Labor is one of the largest costs enterprises face when setting up and managing infrastructure, especially servers and storage. Today, IT administrators can spend hours, if not days, configuring ...