Microsoft Gets Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Out Of the Door

Cloud computing services provider Joyent has announced that it has managed to port KVM to its SmartOS cloud based operating system.The open source SmartOS platform is capable of turning any server into an efficient, multi-tenant...

Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have announced a three-year, US$250 million deal to develop hardware and software products which will be focused on management and virtualisation solutions for data centers, prepackaged solutions for...

Over the next three years, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard will invest $250 million to help partner businesses to build the next generation of data centres and cloud computing. The two computing giants will jointly develop a...

Recent studies by Gartner and IDC have been revealed that market for virtualisation software has shrunk significantly this year which might come as a surprise to many given all the momentum gained by this particular...

Microsoft, the Redmond based software behemoth, had developed its very own cloud service-based operating system in a separate division named Windows Azure Group which was kept separate from the Windows and Server groups. Now, the...

Some IT industry observers confuse application virtualisation with server virtualisation - Steve Gold explains what the technology is and why it so highly advantageous to tap the advantages that it adds to the benefits of...

In what can be termed as a sign of things to come, leading Linux solution vendor Red Hat announced on Wednesday that its Enterprise Linux server operating system can be safely used with Microsoft Windows Server on the same...

Microsoft has announced that the availability of the release candidate of Windows XP Mode, a free component that will allow Windows 7 to run legacy applications from Windows XP using virtualisation. Windows XP Mode is actually a...

Microsoft Corp., which has not been in favour of Linux community over the years due to the issues related to intellectual property rights, announced on Monday it has unleashed 20,000 lines of Linux code under the General Public...

In a bid to broaden the scope of desktop virtualisation, Intel and Citrix are joining forces to ensure enhanced security and management for client systems by connecting them to the Citrix Desktop Delivery Solution, a management...

Microsoft recently announced the launch of a new data centre in Ireland to support its growing online business. This new data centre will comprise tens of thousands of servers pumping out web-based applications to internet users...

Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management at Microsoft, has announced on his blog that MSDN and TechNet subscribers will have access to the beta version of Windows Vista and Server 2008 SP2, six weeks...

Following the releases of Microsoft Windows 2008 Hyper-V and VMWare there has been a lot of discussion as to who will win the virtualisation war. Both these offerings have taken virtualisation to a new level by offering systems...

Virtuozzo Parallels, that works on this basis, although reasonably successful, is never really mentioned in the same breath as Citrix, VMWare and Microsoft. We think the industry has agreed that there are two levels of vendor...

After about 3 years of coding and development (a lot of which was, by all accounts, carried out by XenSource before the acquisition by Citrix), Microsoft has finally released Hyper-V, their long-awaited hypervisor and management...