Whether you opt for bare metal servers or virtual machines, you'll need a rock-solid distro. These are my four go-to favorites.

Virtualization has become a fundamental technology in the world of computing, allowing organizations and individuals alike to maximize their hardware resources, improve efficiency, and enhance ...

When my friend and Directions on Microsoft‘s editor-in-chief Mary Jo Foley wrote in late May that Azure Linux 4.0 would be available for bare-metal servers and virtual machines (VMs), I thought, “I’m ...

Virtualization has become a cornerstone of modern computing, offering a myriad of benefits from cost savings to improved efficiency and scalability. Among the myriad of options available for server ...

IBM last week announced a plan to create “virtual servers” for corporate users connected to mainframes running in its data centers, provided that the users are willing to run applications on a Linux ...

IBM is expanding its “buy-as-you-need” utility approach to Linux on the mainframe. In an announcement today, IBM said it will offer customers capacity as needed by creating virtual Linux servers on ...

Stratus Technologies, an SGH company and a global player in providing simplified, protected, and autonomous computing platforms for the edge and the data center, announced expanded Linux capabilities ...

BackBox Linux is a free, open-source community project based on Ubuntu. Find out how to use the BackBox Linux distribution as a virtual machine. Several Linux distributions are available nowadays for ...