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Microsoft Webcast: The Microsoft Perspective on Windows Server and Linux for Server Operating Systems (Level 100)
White Papers On x86 servers, the two most commonly considered server operating systems are Windows Server and Linux. But how do these operating systems compare when it comes to core requirements such as cost, reliability, security, and interoperability?
[April 16, 2008, 23:12]
Improving Guest Operating System Accounting for Descheduled Virtual Machines in ESX Server 3.x Systems
White Papers VMDesched is available starting with ESX Server 3.0. This paper explains how to install and monitor VMDesched on Linux and Windows guest operating systems. The experimental VMware Descheduled Time Accounting component, VMDesched, is an optional new...
[September 22, 2006, 1:00]
SAN Booting With Windows Server Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000 and 2003 Operating Systems
White Papers This paper will enumerate and explore the issues surrounding the booting of Windows Server 2000 and 2003 operating systems from a Network Appliance FCP- or iSCSI-enabled storage system. This paper will cover the issues germane to SAN booting...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
TechNet Virtual Lab: Deploying Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 3 Operating System Images Using Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn to install the SMS 2003 OS Deployment Feature Pack Update and install USMT 3.0. This webcast gives knowledge on how to create an Image Capture Wizard CD, image a Windows Vista client computer, import Windows...
[September 6, 2008, 1:01]
TechNet Webcast: Zero Touch Deployment Using Systems Management Server 2003 With the Operating System Deployment Pack (Level 200)
White Papers The presenter of this webcast highlights the features in the Operating System Deployment Pack that are most useful for deploying new machines in the Enterprise. The attendee of this webcast will learn how to fully automate the desktop deployment as...
[August 1, 2007, 1:00]
Matching Server Virtualization With Advanced Storage Virtualization: LeftHand Networks Accelerates VMware Server Virtualization With SAN/iQ Software-Based Storage Systems
White Papers Virtualization enables consolidation, and running more than one operating system and application instance per server can help to increase utilization, reduce cost and help organizations work within the space, power, and cooling constraints of...
[June 26, 2009, 1:05]
High-end systems boost server market
News IDC believes that the strongest growth is not in the volume server market but in the "high-end enterprise systems segment", which grew by 8.5 percent. This was the second consecutive quarter in which high-end systems sales outperformed the market...
[May 24, 2007, 13:10]
VMWare to set virtualisation product free
News ESX, while more expensive, permits more sophisticated features such as VMotion, which lets one running operating system be moved from one server to another while it's still running. In addition, Microsoft is working on similar software it plans to...
[February 3, 2006, 16:35]
Linux to dominate on servers
News Linux will be the major server operating system by 2009, at the expense of proprietary Unix operating systems from HP, IBM and Sun. The Butler Group report, "Server Operating Systems -- Winners and Losers in the Open/Proprietary OS Market...
[October 28, 2002, 9:14]
Overview of the Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit
White Papers The File Server Migration Toolkit helps you copy files and folders from servers running Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 operating systems to a server running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating systems or...
[July 15, 2004, 3:00]
TechNet Webcast: Deploying Operating Systems With System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (Level 300)
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn how to perform large-scale deployments of Windows operating systems, including Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, in an enterprise environment using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007.
[June 26, 2009, 1:06]
Linux to face off against NT again?
News A third-party testing lab run by Neal Nelson & Associates is preparing for an August rematch between the two server operating systems. Nelson expects to test the two operating systems configured in multiple ways: as NFS file servers, SMB (Samba...
[July 1, 1999, 10:25]
Linux and High Performance Computing
White Papers The excellent scalability features of Linux along with robust security and performance makes it an excellent choice for server systems, especially in the clustering and high performance computing areas.
[March 25, 2008, 7:43]
Migrating and Consolidating Print Servers
White Papers They are now able to consolidate server functions into fewer, higher performance systems while migrating them to more modern operating systems. Consolidating server systems offers benefits for all types of servers.
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
Second service packs released for Vista, Server 2008
News Microsoft has released the second service pack for its Windows Vista and Server 2008 operating systems. Vista SP2 and Server 2008 SP2, which pull together various updates to the operating systems that have already been rolled out by Microsoft in a...
[May 27, 2009, 12:50]
Asian enterprises turn to Linux
News Asian firms are increasingly running their server applications on Linux operating systems, driven primarily by cost concerns. Despite increasing competition, Windows NT and 2000 server operating systems were the "most widely used" among Asian...
[January 22, 2002, 10:10]
64-bit Windows nearly with us
News Microsoft said on Tuesday that it has released a near-final test version of updates to its Windows and Windows Server operating systems. For some time, Microsoft has been promising to deliver 64-bit versions of Windows to support AMD's Opteron and...
[December 8, 2004, 8:10]
Snapshot of UK server OS use 2008
Blog UK organisations at both the enterprise and SME end are struggling with cost and support of their server operating systems, according to exclusive research carried out by ZDNet UK. The operating systems at the server level most commonly the source...
[June 5, 2008, 12:43]
The KISS-off for virtualisation
Blog Comment As all software is centralized onto a server (server farm), the operating system that needs patching is patched just once on the server. Wyse embeds operating systems into each of their thin clients so that when they need to be patched, each of the...
[March 14, 2008, 21:32]
The KISS-off for virtualisation
Blog Comment As all software is centralized onto a server (server farm), the operating system that needs patching is patched just once on the server. Wyse embeds operating systems into each of their thin clients so that when they need to be patched, each of the...
[March 14, 2008, 21:55]
