Shares in VMware Inc., the virtualization technology specialist, fell for a second day Tuesday amid increasing competition from Microsoft Corp., and a number of high-profile staff departures. Shares in the Palo Alto, Calif., company, closed down almost 7% at $32.47 Tuesday, after sliding 3.5% Monday...
you might have seen that VMware ESX 3.5 update 2 has passed the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program . They announced it here . today announced it has qualified its industry-leading VMware ESX hypervisor under the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). VMware ESX 3.5...
If you are thinking about Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization but aren’t sure how it will fare against VMware in your data center, a new tool from Toronto, Ontario-based CiRBA Inc . might help. This week, CiRBA announced the availability of packaged analysis templates that compare Windows Server 2008...
Virtualization.info writes: Microsoft has announced that two new vendors are participating this program: VMware and Cisco. ( note: VMware doesn’t appear nor in the press announcement neither in the official SVVP page because of a late confirmation) While a notable achievement, the fact that VMware...
Paul Thurrott: Hyper-V is so new we haven't completely taken off the shrinkwrap yet, but Microsoft has already seized a healthy chunk of the virtualization market. The software giant now owns 13 percent of that market, compared to 82 percent for market leader VMWare, according to analysts at IDC...
Fruit: Apples, Oranges Fruitful: Current discussions on hypervisor price differences Fruitless: Getting hypervisor vendors to agree on a fair pricing comparison The Task There’s been some interesting hypervisor pricing comparisons circulating the Internet over the past two weeks that have caught...
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 slamming hyper V more mature competitor, ESX. Some...
In head to head benchmark tests of Microsoft Hyper-V compared to VMware Workstation, The Hypervisor test results indicate virtual machine (VM) performance using Hyper-V is below that of VMware Workstation. We tested Hyper-V running on a desktop PC fitted with an Intel Core Quad Q6600 CPU running at 2...
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 made it work. I've written before about Kroll...
LinuxWorld : Do you think of virtualization as a "product" or a "feature"? How seriously are you looking at KVM and Hyper-V? Clyde Williams, Infrastructure Systems Manager for Southeast Alabama Medical Center (CW): Interesting question, because I feel like virtualization is currently...