Archive for the 'Hyper-V' Category

VMware vs Microsoft: Place your bets

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

At this year’s VMworld conference, the talk was all about the free release of Microsoft’s hypervisor product, and how much of a threat the software giant may pose to virtualization leader VMware The talk of this year’s VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat…
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Virtualization: The race is on to corner the market

Friday, September 19th, 2008

As the technology goes mainstream, competitors such as Microsoft are eager to dislodge VMware from the top of the virtualization tree. Most of the servers installed next year will be virtualized from the outset, experts have said. But, as the technology goes mainstream, will moves by Microsoft…
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Microsoft finally launches Hyper-V

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Analysts have welcomed the release of the hypervisor, but rival VMware claims Hyper-V has been a long time coming and lacks functionality. Microsoft has announced that its Hyper-V hypervisor is finally available, but analysts have questioned whether large enterprises will adopt the product as their sole virtualization…
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