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 ...

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 ...

The San Jose, Calif.-based vendor, one of the top Fibre Channel SAN switch vendors, introduced its Tapestry family of server provisioning tools and wide-area file services (WAFS) technology, said Tom ...

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' ...

Like other remote systems provisioning products such as Altiris, LoudCloud's OpsWare automates everything from bare server configuration (operating systems, middleware, applications) to patching and ...

IT pros who understand the benefits of cloud computing are assessing if they can build a private cloud behind closed doors for additional security. Incorporating cloud automation, self-service ...

Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has announced a new tool called Metal as a Service (MAAS) that is designed to simplify the provisioning of individual server nodes in 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 ...

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 ...