Need tools for comparing virtual machine performance across different platforms, but no money in your IT budget? Here are a few suggestions. Chris: For my benchmarking, I have to use free tools like ...

Vmware has launched a new tool to test the performance of virtualised systems, which in the past has been difficult to pin down despite the benefits of virtualisation. VMmark measures the performance ...

Rich McDougall and Scott Drummand, performance gurus over at VMware, presented a fantastic review of some of the performance testing VMware has been doing at the VMware analyst day. I posted something ...

ESX pulled down top honors in most of our basic load testing, multi-CPU VM hosting, and disk I/O performance tests. Microsoft’s Hyper-V, however, did well in a few cases, namely when we used a special ...

Cloud start-ups seem to be popping out from everywhere these days, and they’re bringing with them a great deal of innovation matching the biggest names in the industry. The first and perhaps most ...

It's time to reign in the virtual machine revolution taking over your network. In the first part of a series of testing-based articles looking at the various virtual machine management tools available ...

VMware has released a whitepaper that shows performance increases in vSphere 6.0 over vSphere 5.5. It has some interesting results -- how real-world valuable they are is another matter. One of the ...