As the VMworld 2010 conference gets underway this week in San Francisco, players in the world of virtualization will be taking another read on the impact of upstart Microsoft on the incumbent VMware ...

Looking at making the jump over to Hyper-V to avoid dropping 6 kilobucks for vmware essentials plus just to allow me to do shared nothing live migrations and manage all of my hosts from a single pane ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is VMware starting to feel the heat from Microsoft's Hyper-V, or is the release of VMware vCenter XVP Manager a master's stroke at containing the competition? If you have not heard yet, VMware ...

Competition between VMware and Microsoft got a little tighter on Thursday with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, which includes a major update to Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization software.

If you haven't had a chance to read my Hyper-V vs. VMware debate with Jason Perlow in the Great Debate series, please do so before reading this post-mortem assessment and review. Now that you've had a ...

Microsoft took a big leap forward Thursday in its virtualization effort. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant released a public beta for its hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, which ...