As midmarket IT organizations increasingly have a need for more sophisticated enterprise-class technologies, making those products easier to manage has become a high priority.

Virtualization management challenges facing SMB organizations can make IT more complex to manage

Dell KACE K-Series Advanced appliances simplify management of up to 3,500 end points

Scale-out storage systems will be needed to mitigate effects of virtualization and rapidly growing data

Advances in virtualization and cloud computing are chaning IT cost structures for the better

At a recent Windows Server 8 Reviewers Workshop, Bill Laing, Microsoft corporate vice president for the server and cloud division, touted all of the features of the forthcoming Windows Server 8.

There’s no doubt at this point the Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform is starting to gain some real momentum. In the last few months study after study shows Hyper-V to be gaining momentum on VMware, but the real question is why?