Hyper-V

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft’s Bob Muglia mentions that even facing VMware’s huge headstart Hyper-V is gaining marketshare. Of course, specifics are lacking, but he did let slip that it’s making substantial gains in the…

Read more Microsoft: SMBs Fuel Hyper-V Adoption

by Pedro Hernandez on February 23, 2010 · 0 comments

Today Dell made of flurry of virtualization related announcements. Among the most intriguing are two, quasi-turnkey virtual infrastructure packages, one for full-fledged datacenters and another for SMBs: Data Center Virtualization Configuration: The unified virtualization platform with pre-configured architectures combines Dell…

Read more Dell's Shortcut to Virtualization

by Pedro Hernandez on June 17, 2009 · 0 comments

Apple, Dell And HP Scrambling For Top Green Spot – RedOrbit “It’s really a green arms race, in which they’re trying to one up each other,” John Spooner, an analyst with Technology Business Research, said to Reuters News. “The good…

Read more Green IT News Roundup – Monday, June 15

by Pedro Hernandez on June 15, 2009 · 0 comments

Windows 7 isn’t the only big thing coming out of Microsoft on October, not for eco-techies at least.  VIrtualization Review spotted this little nugget about Hyper-V that nearly got lost in the excitement.At the very end of the Windows 7…

Read more Windows 7 (and Hyper-V) to Make for Momentous October

by Pedro Hernandez on June 3, 2009 · 0 comments

Datacenters as broadcasters? Not as far-fetched as it would have seemed a scant couple of years ago. If Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services like AT&T U-verse take off in the U.S., where subscribers expect home theater quality HD video and…

Read more Virtualization and IPTV Meet at Microsoft Mediaroom

by Pedro Hernandez on May 27, 2009 · 0 comments

Today Microsoft released the second service pack for both Server 2008 and Vista. Along with a slew of patches and a handful of compatibility updates, SP2 brings an exciting new capability: SP2 provides the Hyper-V virtualization environment as a fully…

Read more Windows Server 2008 SP2 Brings Hyper-V Integration

by Pedro Hernandez on May 26, 2009 · 0 comments

That technology companies wage marketing wars is nothing new. Microsoft vs. Apple, Intel vs. AMD… the list goes on. The virtualization market hasn’t been affected by the FUD bug, largely because the market is viewed as VMware and everyone else….

Read more Have the Virtualization Wars Begun?

by Pedro Hernandez on May 11, 2009 · 0 comments

Is there an immediate return on investment in virtualization? – Enterprise Management Quarterly As a solution architect, I find out that lots of IT managers hold a misleading idea that the implementation of a virtual system reduces the operation…

Read more Green IT News Roundup – Monday, May 4

by Pedro Hernandez on May 4, 2009 · 0 comments

Well, that didn’t take long. VMware made a splash last week by outlining its private cloud vision. Today, Microsoft got in on the act. During the Microsoft Management Summit this week, Microsoft reiterated the role of cloud computing and virtualization…

Read more Microsoft Also Envisions Cloudy, Virtualized Future

by Pedro Hernandez on April 29, 2009 · 0 comments