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...
Glenn Weadock is frustrated that keycombinantions are different: The first issue is how to send the Ctrl-Alt-Del combination to the VM. Surely it's the same as it was in Virtual Server 2005 and Virtual PC 2007 - right-Alt-Del? Ah, but that would be logical! Nope, this time around the combination...
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...
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), it might be a good time to take stock of Redmond's...
Kung-Fu Hypervisor Here's why Microsoft's Hyper-V may become the hypervisor of your choice. Also in this issue: System Center moves Microsoft into the big leagues, product reviews, interview with a hypervisor visionary, and much more. Kung Fu Hypervisor Don't let its looks fool you -- give...
VMware's announcement that it is cutting the price of its ESXi hypervisor from $500 to zero represents a sign that Microsoft's recent entrance into virtualization market with its $28 Hyper-V is already having an impact. "VMware is starting to move more quickly in the short term to shore...
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 and what it did or did not mean for VMware and the...
Frugalbrothers: It looks like the market leader VMware is in for some serious competition in the virtualization market. We will soon be testing Hyper-V virtualization software when we build our Windows 2008 Server box. Are you going to try it?
As I watch the Microsoft marketing engine shift into high gear, and as I read various articles and posts scattered throughout the blogsphere about the recent release of Hyper-V, I can't help but feel like I'm watching the techie version of a drug commercial. I mean seriously, for three years...
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 was an interesting and quite frankly expected...