Security for Virtual Infrastructures - understanding virtualisation to simplify security

Microsoft is betting on Vista as a long running platform as it pushes the beta version of its desktop virtualisation software, designed to run legacy Windows apps on Vista, out of its virtual doors in Redmond. Microsoft...

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...

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

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...

After the much-touted virtualization battle, VMware has finally become a member of Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) from Microsoft.The decision is reportedly taken after the software giant moderated the software...

Microsoft has announced a number of Virtualisation-related products for the 8th of September and has concurrently given its accent to its first Virtualisation User group, hinting at more to come. At a launch event called...

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...

Everyone’s talking about virtualisation. It’s everywhere. It’s often seen as a quick win, silver bullet solution to fix IT problems, but there’s still a lot of talk about botched implementations, low...

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...

A report published by International Data Corporation (IDC) singled out software licensing as one of the main reasons why virtualisation is not experiencing a much bigger growth in Europe. Half of the severs bought in the European...

A new feature that Microsoft is integrating with Windows Server 2008 will allow several operating systems to run simultaneously on a single physical computer, a move that will turn the heat on the likes of VMWare, the software...

Arch-rivals Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have extended their partnership by building a dedicated centre on Microsoft's Redmond Campus to test the compatibility and interoperability of their products and solutions. “The...

Virtualisation - The Future of Your Desktop Applications Recently I was asked to examine a product called Software Virtualisation Solution (SVS) from Altiris together with an add-on product called DVS4SBC for use in the...

Microsoft is pulling all stops to get Virtualisation into its customers' platforms like there's no tomorrow. The company has announced that it is lifting a ban that prevented Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium from being...