On April 21, VMware will take the wraps off of vSphere, the next generation of its infrastructure suite currently known as VMware Infrastructure.
A key Microsoft team member involved with the modular design of Microsoft's server farms has joined another company.
The first version of Microsoft's desktop virtualization tool was announced last week.
- By Jim Barthold
- 04/09/2009
Sun Microsystems has released VirtualBox 2.2, an update to the company's free and open source desktop virtualization solution.
VMware believes it can save you at least half on your server hardware
through virtualization. It's so confident of the savings that the
company is announcing that it will work for you for free if it can't
meet that goal.
Defining the security model for your first foray with Hyper-V.
- By Rick Vanover
- 04/02/2009
Microsoft has the stuff to come out of this recession on top.
The Distributed Management Task Force has released the first finished version of the Open Virtualization Format, a set of metadata tags that can be used to deploy a virtual environment across multiple virtualization platforms.
- By Joab Jackson
- 03/25/2009
Sun has released Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 3, a major update to the company's virtualization management suite.
Cisco Systems Inc., the IT industry’s leading supplier of routers and other networking hardware, is expanding its hardware offerings to include blade servers as part of a comprehensive push into the white-hot world of virtualization.
Server virtualization is being implemented at the majority of firms, in both enterprise (1,000 seats or more) and small-to-medium (SMB) business segments, according to two separate Forrester Research reports.
- By Herb Torrens
- 03/06/2009
New research from Gartner predicts that sales of virtualization software could jump by nearly 50 percent this year.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 03/03/2009
Microsoft described its Cloud Computing Futures (CCF) project in greater detail late last month in an interview with the project's director.
Redmond's virtualization management tool doesn't have all the bells and whistles that VMware's vCenter has. But it doesn't have the same hefty price tag, either.
The Application Sync and Application Link features combined with an easy-to-follow interface make ThinApp a winner for both VMware and its customers.
- By Kevin Da Silva
- 03/01/2009
Microsoft released a cumulative update to its application virtualization solution, which now supports the Windows 7 Beta, according to an announcement issued by the company on Thursday.
Microsoft's chief finance head on Thursday answered questions about Microsoft's business plans at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2009 event in San Francisco.
TechNet and MSDN subscribers now have access to the Release Candidate version of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
A new report from IDC, announced on Wednesday, suggested that the global economic malaise has already chipped away at the enterprise IT server market.
Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.