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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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VMware bug causes worldwide disruption

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

VMware virtual machines on all hosts with the company’s latest hypervisor, ESX 3.5 Update 2, in enterprise configurations have found that it will not power on after being turned off. Update at 8:35 a.m. PT on Wednesday: Since ZDNet UK published this article, a patch for the flaw has…
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Microsoft targets VMware with new strategy

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Software maker buys Calista Technologies, broadens partnership with Citrix in aim to better compete with virtualization leader. Microsoft has acquired a start-up company called Calista Technologies and expanded its alliance with Citrix Systems, targeting VMware’s early lead in virtualization technology. Microsoft unveiled the news on Monday as part…
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