Steve Jones talks about the improvements in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012. These days there isn't a good reason to avoid considering virtualization for SQL Servers.  Read more...

What's the benefit of virtual machines and hypervisors? Steve Jones has a few comments on them and their future.  Read more...

Today Steve Jones talks about the need for a lab for each of us, and a few ways you can build one.  Read more...

As more and more companies move to virtualized servers, security should be on their minds. Steve Jones talks about that changes that you should consider.  Read more...

To what extent should a hypervisor company support other software? Will this have implications for cloud computing, or services used in software? Steve Jones comments.  Read more...

The DBA news of the week contains some interesting thoughts on DR and virtualization plans. Steve Jones comments on why you should care about these topics.  Read more...

More and more people are looking at virtual servers, but it's not as simple as just installing the software. Steve Jones has a few comments about virtual database servers and what you can do for a successful project.  Read more...

Virtualization, and use of the 'cloud', will be essential to the deployment of new applications, but will existing applications will be quite so amenable?  Read more...

The performance of virtual machines is getting closer and closer to that of physical machines with better software like Hyper-V.  Read more...