Take a look in your server room(s) and closet(s), as well as in the corners of your office – how many servers do you have? How did it ever get that way? Servers seem to pop up whenever your back is ...

In an IT world full of elusive goals, there’s probably no target as slippery and generally elusive as server uptime. Keeping servers alive and awake, or at least ready to instantly spring into action ...

• Thin provisioning was initially introduced at the storage level. However, recently VMware and Hyper V introduced thin provisioning at the Hypervisor level. Storage virtual provisioning gives an ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

I have my DHCP server (on Sonicwall) configured to give out the domain controller/DNS server ip as primary DNS, for secondary DNS I have set to give out 1.1.1.1, for tertiary 8.8.4.4 Does this comply ...

I'm curious how you guys patch your production servers - especially in light of the recent RPC vulnerabilities. I think most companies have been slow in patching their internal servers - especially if ...

File servers remain a critical part of many IT environments, but managing access securely can become complex as permissions ...

Sizing a server for virtualized clusters requires a choice between using a few large, powerful servers or many small, inexpensive ones. Administrators must compare the advantages of each setup in the ...