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Opinion: Why choose Hyper-V?

Jason Whitaker: Everyone who knows that i keep it no secret, i believe the most significant development to be released from Redmond in the last decade is Hyper V, even though it is in itself a relatively small piece of code, I’m tired of people...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 2:25 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition
Opinion: VMware, Microsoft Virtualization Pitches Miss the Most Practical Issues

Kevin Fogarty: One of the major drawbacks of Microsoft 's virtualization pitch is the lack of good case histories—examples of companies that have not only picked Hyper-V for their virtualization platform, but are able to talk about how they...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2008 11:14 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition
Taking Stock: Microsoft's Virtual Powerplay

Stephen Swoyer: Just how favorably does Microsoft's Hyper-V compare to established products from VMWare, Virtual Iron, and Citrix? Now that Microsoft Corp.'s Hyper-V technology is available (and a standalone Hyper-V Server is said to be imminent...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 11:56 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition
VmwareBlog: ESX 3.5i for Free and the Impact on Hyper-V and the SMB

At the end of the VMware financial call on Tuesday, Paul Maritz (VMware's new CEO) announced that ESXi 3.5 would now be available for free to download from vmware.com. Yesterday the blogosphere and press lit up with articles about the announcement...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 3:15 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition
Clash of the Titans: Microsoft and Sun spar over HYPER-V

When we are talking about tools for ‘A Better Windows World”, there is no way I could avoid talking about Hyper-V. What Hyper-V means to the Windows enterprise I will touch upon in the later weeks. I wanted to however share first what I thought...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 8:46 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition
Opinion: 'Five Reasons Why VMware Virtualization is Better than Microsoft Hyper-V'

In Bernd Harzog's recent article, Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization: Resistance is Futile (Almost) , an anonymous user posted a very interesting comment detailing five reasons why Microsoft Hyper-V might not be so hard to resist compared to VMware's...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 11:02 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition
Opinion: 'Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization: Resistance is Futile (Almost)'

here is what I think you should expect in the virtualization market: Microsoft will capture the high volume low price segment of the market by commoditizing it. Commoditizing a market means that you reduce perceived differentiation to zero, so that customers...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 11:00 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition
Dispelling the "Microsoft Virtualization is not Ready for 'Prime Time'" Myth...

Chris Steffen from Kroll Factual Data: I want to share some thoughts on what I have heard about Microsoft virtualization in the enterprise data center. I will also be the first to admit that I am not the average user of Microsoft's virtualization...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 10:22 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition
OPINION:Kiss VMware's Rump Good-Bye

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Computerworld.com: A perfect storm is brewing ahead and, like a fishing captain who doesn't get that a plummeting barometer means stay at port, VMware is persisting in sailing into disaster. Yes, I know, VMware as recently...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 9:35 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition
Citrix’s “Kensho” Open Virtual Format tools will drive hypervisor interoperability, Microsoft Hyper-V

Citrix will ship in the third quarter a technical preview of Open Virtual Machine format tools that will allow developers and IT pros to create virtual, portable application workloads that run on XenServer and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Oh...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 7:30 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition
Microsoft Hyper-V - A shot in the arm for virtualization adoption?

Here are some of the reasons why we believe that Microsoft will be able to make a dent on virtualization adoption — (a) Easy deployability/installation and user familiarity with the Microsoft products (b) Low TCO (c) Ubiquitous access to resources...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 8:34 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition
VMware certain it won't be 'another Netscape'

CALIFORNIA's VMware, which dominates the market for server virtualisation software, is confident it won't suffer the fate of so many technology pioneers before it and be sidelined or see its market commoditised by Microsoft. Microsoft belatedly...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 11:11 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition
OPINION: Hyper-V: why you do not want it

Arjan Koole, Kluner.net: This article will explain Hyper-V, and why it’s a very poor choice for virtualisation indeed. About Hyper-V Hyper-V is Microsoft’s implementation of a so called ‘hypervisor’. A hypervisor is a technology...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 11:06 AM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition
OPINION: Why (or why not) switch from VMware to Hyper-V?

Now that Microsoft has finally delivered Hyper-V, everyone is waiting to see how many VMware shops will make the switch. Are there any compelling reasons for a company that already has a large investment in VMware products to switch to another product...

Published Sat, Jul 07 2008 9:20 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition
Opinion: VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long one

Larry Dignan of ZDNET: Microsoft’s Hyper-V–that long awaited virtualization effort from Redmond–is off and running and the analysis on it falls into three generic buckets: Hyper-V is spin; it’s a real virtualization player; and...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 2:56 PM by Bink

Filed under: Hyper-V, Opinion, Competition

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Opinion: Why choose Hyper-V?

Opinion: VMware, Microsoft Virtualization Pitches Miss the Most Practical Issues

Taking Stock: Microsoft's Virtual Powerplay

VmwareBlog: ESX 3.5i for Free and the Impact on Hyper-V and the SMB

Clash of the Titans: Microsoft and Sun spar over HYPER-V

Opinion: 'Five Reasons Why VMware Virtualization is Better than Microsoft Hyper-V'

Opinion: 'Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization: Resistance is Futile (Almost)'

Dispelling the "Microsoft Virtualization is not Ready for 'Prime Time'" Myth...

OPINION:Kiss VMware's Rump Good-Bye

Citrix’s “Kensho” Open Virtual Format tools will drive hypervisor interoperability, Microsoft Hyper-V

Microsoft Hyper-V - A shot in the arm for virtualization adoption?

VMware certain it won't be 'another Netscape'

OPINION: Hyper-V: why you do not want it

OPINION: Why (or why not) switch from VMware to Hyper-V?

Opinion: VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long one