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Microsoft: How we’ll take on VMware

Friday, October 10th, 2008

The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company’s senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. …
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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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Red Hat: Virtualization will be free

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on, Red Hat has predicted virtualization will be included in all operating systems for free Red Hat has predicted that virtualization will be included in all operating systems for free, while setting out the roles of…
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Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has answered claims that the company’s hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA–Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor’s TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft’s hypervisor software could…
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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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