After his last foray into the “Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product” space, Jason Perlow is back -- this time to take a look at Microsoft’s Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built ...
After years of playing catch-up to VMware the upcoming version of Hyper-V is wowing the Microsoft faithful with unique new features — and gaining the attention of VMware users, too, one consultant ...
It's been about 2.5 years since I put VMware in at my last job which I recently left but now facing another virualization project I thought I would source hopefully unbiased views on a comparison of ...
IT professionals who work with Hyper-V on a regular basis might feel lost in a VMware environment, but some key similarities between the two offerings can provide a welcome sense of familiarity. Even ...
Microsoft is the new competitor in the virtualization market, but executives outlined some of the reasons they think the company can dominate it during a Microsoft virtualization event in Bellevue, ...
Jason Perlow: For the first time in four years, Windows Server and Hyper-V are not only at parity in terms of basic enterprise virtualization functionality with VMware vSphere, but in a number of ...
VMWare also has a significant number of features a lot of their customers never use and yet still pay for. In my mind VMWare remains the 800lb gorilla in the enterprise virtualization space (and for ...
Microsoft has been hammering away at VMware with the message that Hyper-V gives customers much bigger bang for their buck, and the software giant has come up with creative promotions to get companies ...
Microsoft has been trying to beat VMware, Citrix and other virtualization vendors at their own game. But should organizations rely on virtualization vendors to consolidate their servers, or are tools ...
The buzz about Hyper-V, Microsoft’s entry into the world of serious server virtualization, has been building for quite some time. This past week at Microsoft’s mammoth North America TechEd 2008 ...