The combination of free open source and virtual machines is hard to beat; here are some of the handiest virtual appliances Virtual appliances are great for the same reasons physical appliances took ...

Let's start right off by tackling the most pertinent question for this article: why the heck would someone want to run Linux on a Mac system that already has a very nice Linux distro hidden beneath ...

Everyone is familiar with hardware appliances in one form or another. It could be a wireless access point at home or a DNS server appliance in the data center. Appliances offer a prebuilt software ...

Despite the fact there’s no such thing as a free lunch, you can download the eight virtual appliances discussed in this article for free. That doesn’t mean you can use any of these in a high-end ...

If you're looking to do a trial of OrangeHRM, one of the easiest methods is via a virtual appliance. Jack Wallen shows you how this is done. OrangeHRM is one of the most widely-used open-source human ...

Network and systems management tools typically come as software applications or hardware devices. But a new trend toward virtual appliances combines the ease of hardware installation with the ...

Brien Posey already showed you how to create a Virtual Private Cloud endpoint and a storage gateway. In this third part of the series, he'll show you how to set up the virtual appliance and activate ...

Managing IT infrastructure is a more complex proposition than it used to be. The age of on-premises servers and monolithic applications is giving way to a new hybrid reality: Legacy, on-premises ...