Virtualization

Network-attached storage (NAS) solutions have long been a valuable way for networks to store, organize, and migrate data securely. Luckily, there are plenty of free and open source solutions to consider. While enterprise-grade NAS solutions often provide clients with the hardware and software needed to deploy network-attached storage, open source offerings allow anyone with the appropriate hardware to download, install, and configure NAS software. Long after...

Amazon and Microsoft are two giants of the cloud. As such, their cloud compute offerings often go head to head. But it can be difficult to decide which is best between Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 and Microsoft Azure VM for cloud computing services and virtualization. What Is AWS EC2? AWS contains a great many elements, components, and supporting systems within its overall ecosystem. Of its...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) contains a great many elements, components, and supporting systems within its overall ecosystem. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a web-based service. It provides scalable computing power on AWS, whereas AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a container orchestration service. To explain ECS vs EC2 briefly, Amazon ECS is a good way to run containers inside Amazon EC2 instances. However, due...

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable and speedy container management service that allows virtual environments to run, stop, and manage containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this article, we discuss Amazon ECS and what it is used for, as well as some of its benefits and features. Read more: What Is AWS EC2? Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud What Is Amazon ECS? Amazon ECS...

A virtual machine (VM) is simply a digital version of a physical computer. As a virtualized instance of a computer, a virtual machine can execute almost all tasks a physical computer can, including running operating systems and applications. Azure Virtual Machines are scalable, on-demand computing resources offered by Microsoft. In this article, we discuss Azure Virtual Machines and their features as well as some use...

As organizations increasingly rely on virtualization and containerization, Proxmox and VMware are two notable selections for deploying virtual machines (VM). Though both vendors offer free options, Proxmox is fully open source and a favorite for home server aficionados. The virtualization pioneer, VMware, sits squarely at the front of the VM industry, offering advanced features and support for enterprise workloads. This article pits Proxmox vs VMware...

VMware vSphere is VMware's virtualization platform, and vCenter and ESXi are both important components of vSphere. VMware vSphere, vCenter, and ESXi were initialized as different technologies for different purposes, but now they're combined into the vSphere platform. In this article, we discuss vSphere, vCenter Server, ESXi, and the differences between them. Read more: VirtualBox vs VMware: Choosing the Best Virtualization Tool What Is vSphere? vSphere is a...

Cloud computing security, or cloud security, is a set of policies and technologies to protect the services and resources of the cloud computing system. Cloud security is a subdomain of cybersecurity, and includes processes to protect services, applications, data, virtualized IP, and the related infrastructure of cloud computing systems. Virtualized environments, including virtual machines (VMs) and containers, present unique risks to cloud security. Here, we...