This article addresses a key function built in to Windows 2012 that on first blush may seem like a complex technical networking feature, but that functionality has GREAT implications when extending ...

You can create some advanced virtual networks with this nifty tool. Have you tried it? Plus: Upcoming VMware Webinar July 12! Using server virtualization requires that you understand the concepts of ...

As corporations rapidly move to virtualize their datacenters using technology like VMWare, securing those datacenters becomes much harder. Along with virtualizing the servers, corporations are also ...

Way back when virtualization was a new thing, virtual networks were simple connections that linked virtual servers and the occasional networking appliance. Now, however, things are different. Building ...

Pity poor legacy networks. There’s a tremendous amount of change going on with everything that connects to networks — mobile devices, virtual hosts, cloud computing applications– but networks have ...

Think of a modern enterprise data center. There are likely hundreds of physical servers hosting thousands of VMs. Individual systems are connected via 10gbE links that likely feed 40gb cores. Local ...

When your sign up for Internet access on behalf of your company or purchase Web hosting for your company's Web servers, you will purchase either a dynamic IP address, a single static IP address or a ...

The mask Class A subnet masks must start with 255.0.0.0 at a minimum, because the whole first octet of an IP address (the IP address describes the specific location on the network) is used to define ...