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• VMTurbo upgrade supports the three major virtualization platforms

  By Tim Greene | 02 February, 2012 02:25

  VMTurbo has upgraded its operations management suite to support the three major virtual environments and to improve its capacity-planning tool.

• What's next with hypervisors?

  By John Dix | 13 December, 2011 22:28

  The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly.

• Microsoft claims Hyper-V will leapfrog VMware

  By Julie Bort | 28 October, 2011 04:40

  After years of playing catch-up to VMware the upcoming version of Hyper-V is wowing the Microsoft faithful with unique new features -- and gaining the attention of VMware users, too, one consultant says.

• Empired lands exclusive Cloupia partnership

  By Julia Talevski | 07 July, 2011 17:12

  National IT services provider Empired has landed an exclusive partnership with global cloud automation and management software provider Cloupia.

• Ingram achieves Microsoft VAD status

  By Julia Talevski | 15 March, 2011 10:29

  Ingram Micro has expanded its distribution arrangement with Microsoft, becoming a value add distributor (VAD).

• Microsoft partner tackles storage problems in virtual data centers

  By Jon Brodkin | 18 February, 2010 05:36

  A storage start-up called Virsto Software has developed a Microsoft Hyper-V add-on that speeds up access to data in virtualized data centers.

• Citrix debuts disaster recovery app

  By Joab Jackson | 16 December, 2009 07:12

  Citrix has developed disaster recovery software that uses Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology to help automate and speed the recovery process.

• With Hyper-V R2, Microsoft sets its sights on VMware

  By Sumner Lemon and James Niccolai | 23 October, 2009 14:21

  Competition between VMware and Microsoft got a little tighter on Thursday with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2, which includes a major update to Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software.

• Microsoft Hyper-V still a work in progress, group says

  By James Niccolai | 02 September, 2009 13:27

  Windows Server 2008 R2 will help Microsoft narrow the feature gap with virtualization products from VMware and Citrix Systems, but its new Hyper-V software still won't be "production-ready" for most enterprise applications, according to Burton Group.

• Microsoft Linux move puts pressure on VMware

  By Jon Brodkin | 21 July, 2009 07:59

  Microsoft's historic embrace of Linux technology could have wide-reaching impacts on the virtualization market and Microsoft's rival VMware.

• Microsoft to offer more goodies in free Hyper-V Server update

  By Eric Lai | 13 May, 2009 07:27

  Ratcheting up the competition with virtualization market leader VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp. will include a number of advanced features in its upcoming free server hypervisor software.

• Microsoft runs cannibalization risk with low-end server push

  By Sumner Lemon | 01 May, 2009 05:48

  Microsoft runs the risk of cannibalizing some server sales with the release of Windows Server 2008 Foundation Edition, a low-end version of the server operating system that will ship installed on servers that cost as little as US$500. But the potential boost of expanding the market for low-end servers outweighs the risk of losing some sales of more expensive versions of the operating system, a Microsoft executive said Wednesday.

• Microsoft targets Windows, Linux management

  By John Fontana | 29 April, 2009 08:06

  Microsoft Tuesday opened its annual management confab saying it would ship the next version of Operations Manager by the end of June and laying out its efforts to manage data centers and virtualized environments.

• Microsoft ships BizTalk upgrade

  By Paul Krill | 28 April, 2009 08:14

  Microsoft will ship on Monday BizTalk Server 2009, an upgrade to its system integration software featuring virtualization and backing for recent software packages like Windows Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.

• VMware's version of flexibility lacks Microsoft Hyper-V

  By Jon Brodkin | 22 April, 2009 08:35

  VMware promises new levels of flexibility in the data center with vSphere, its cloud operating system, but is still promoting vendor lock-in by refusing to support competing virtualization products.