I’ve written many posts about my adventures in virtualized server building and management over the past couple of years. Mostly to document what I’ve learned and to see what others are doing. Things ...

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 ...

In a move that caused more than a few eyes to bulge and jaws to drop, last July Microsoft announced it was contributing code to the Linux community with hopes of having it included in the Linux tree.

Now that I’ve spent a long time with different flavors of Linux over the course of my distro-hopping journey, I’ve started to gravitate towards certain distributions for my DIY projects. For example, ...

The recent announcement that Hyper-V supports CentOS Linux guest virtual machines makes Microsoft's offering even more attractive to organizations of all sizes. It may sound counterintuitive, but the ...

I had a couple Zenoss VMware appliances that run Linux that needed to have more space allocated to them. I knew just adding another hard drive wouldn’t solve the issue so I set about finding the least ...